CVE-2018-16511

HIGH

Artifex Ghostscript <9.24 - RCE

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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, 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