Out-of-Bounds Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GHOSTSCRIPT-381872
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed5 Sept 2018

Introduced: 5 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16510  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 ghostscript to version 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2 or higher.

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 Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PDFs to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.