CVE-2018-16510
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-05 06:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:24
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea735ba37dc0fd5f5622d031830b9a559dec1cc9
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/27/4Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699671Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea735ba37dc0fd5f5622d031830b9a559dec1cc9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/27/4Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699671Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/Third Party Advisory
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