CVE-2018-15909
Published: 27 August 2018
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 7.8
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
ghostscript Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(9.22~dfsg-3)
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2)
|
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| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9)
|
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
(trusty was released [9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13])
|
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Patches: Upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0b6cd1918e1ec4ffd087400a754a845180a4522b Upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=e01e77a36cbb2e0277bc3a63852244bec41be0f6 |
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Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | CVE-2018-16585 patches need to be applied first |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15909
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3768-1
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian