CVE-2018-19478 (GCVE-0-2018-19478)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-01-02 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:37
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
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