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CVE-2018-16510

Published: 5 September 2018

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
code isn't present in xenial and earlier, need to try reproducer

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
ghostscript
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
bionic
Released (9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=ea735ba37dc0fd5f5622d031830b9a559dec1cc9

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