Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting ghostscript package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.72% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GHOSTSCRIPT-1056282
  • published28 Jan 2019
  • disclosed28 Jan 2019

Introduced: 28 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6988  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (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.