CVE-2018-10194

HIGH

Ghostscript < 9.22 - Denial of Service via PDF Text Positioning Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The set_text_distance function in devices/vector/gdevpdts.c in the pdfwrite component in Artifex Ghostscript through 9.22 does not prevent overflows in text-positioning calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00028.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3636-1/
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040729

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0065
EPSS Percentile 71.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (13)
artifex/ghostscript < 9.22
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 17.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
debian/debian_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.7
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_eus 7.5
... and 3 more
Published Apr 18, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026