CVE-2018-16513

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Published: Sep 5, 2018
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2018-16513
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.8
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-704

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
artifex / ghostscript	-	9.24
debian / debian_linux	8.0	8.0.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	16.04	16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	14.04	14.04.x
debian / debian_linux	9.0	9.0.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	18.04	18.04.x
artifex / gpl_ghostscript	-	9.26
pulsesecure / pulse_connect_secure	9.0r1	9.0r3.4
pulsesecure / pulse_connect_secure	8.2r1.0	8.2r12.1
pulsesecure / pulse_connect_secure	8.3r1	8.3r7.1

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2018-16513

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