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CVE-2018-15911

Published: 28 August 2018

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
ghostscript
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (9.22~dfsg-3)
xenial
Released (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9)
bionic
Released (9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2)
trusty
Released (9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=8e9ce5016db968b40e4ec255a3005f2786cce45f

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H