CVE-2018-19478 (GCVE-0-2018-19478)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-02 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:37
VLAI
Summary
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-11-20 00:00
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