Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting ghostscript package, versions *
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- published28 Jan 2019
- disclosed28 Jan 2019
Introduced: 28 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-6988 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:18.04 ghostscript.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (attempted excessive memory allocation) in opj_calloc in openjp2/opj_malloc.c, when called from opj_tcd_init_tile in openjp2/tcd.c, as demonstrated by the 64-bit opj_decompress.