Description
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445
Release Notes x_refsource_confirm
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856
Patch x_refsource_confirm
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607
Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.html
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0064
EPSS Percentile
70.9%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (2)
artifex/ghostscript
< 9.26
debian/debian_linux
8.0
Published
Jan 02, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026