CVE-2018-16513
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-05 13:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:24
Severity ?
Summary
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288Third Party Advisory
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