Out-of-Bounds Affecting ghostscript package, versions [,9.24)(9.24,9.26)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370707
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Sep 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 9.24, 9.26 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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