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
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https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ | Patch Vendor Advisory |
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182 | Issue Tracking Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0edd3d6c634a577db261615a9dc2719bca7f6e01 | Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699659 | Permissions Required Third Party Advisory |
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 | Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 | Third Party Advisory |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650 | Third Party Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2018-09-04 23:29
Updated : 2019-03-11 09:59
NVD link : CVE-2018-16511
Mitre link : CVE-2018-16511
JSON object : View
CWE
CWE-704
Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast
Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_linux_desktop
- enterprise_linux_server_aus
- enterprise_linux_workstation
- enterprise_linux_server_tus
- enterprise_linux_server_eus
- enterprise_linux_server
artifex
- ghostscript
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
debian
- debian_linux