Description
In Artifex Ghostscript through 9.25, the setpattern operator did not properly validate certain types. A specially crafted PostScript document could exploit this to crash Ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the context of the Ghostscript process. This is a type confusion issue because of failure to check whether the Implementation of a pattern dictionary was a structure type.
References (7)
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0131
EPSS Percentile
79.9%
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 (7)
artifex/ghostscript
< 9.25
debian/debian_linux
8.0
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
redhat/enterprise_linux_workstation
7.0
Published
Dec 20, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026