cve-2018-16511
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. A type confusion in "ztype" could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0edd3d6c634a577db261615a9dc2719bca7f6e01
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699659Permissions Required, 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://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=0edd3d6c634a577db261615a9dc2719bca7f6e01
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699659Permissions Required, 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://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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