Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-GHOSTSCRIPT-1056191
  • published16 Jan 2018
  • disclosed16 Jan 2018

Introduced: 16 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-5727  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In OpenJPEG 2.3.0, there is an integer overflow vulnerability in the opj_t1_encode_cblks function (openjp2/t1.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file.