CVE-2018-16542 (GCVE-0-2018-16542)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-05 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:24
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling to crash the interpreter.
References
cve@mitre.org http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b575e1ec42cc86f6a58c603f2a88fcc2af699cc8
cve@mitre.org http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105337 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699668 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b575e1ec42cc86f6a58c603f2a88fcc2af699cc8
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105337 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699668 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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