Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. A type confusion in "ztype" could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
Patch x_refsource_misc
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0edd3d6c634a577db261615a9dc2719bca7f6e01
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699659
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0194
EPSS Percentile
77.4%
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-704
Status
published
Products (12)
artifex/ghostscript
< 9.24
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
debian/debian_linux
8.0
debian/debian_linux
9.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop
7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server
7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus
7.6
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_eus
7.6
... and 2 more
Published
Sep 05, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026