Name: CVE-2018-16510: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-09-05T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-16510, CWE-119, CVSS 7.8, EPSS 0.01745

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PDFs to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade ghostscript	Jul 30, 2024	Sep 5, 2018
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade app-text/ghostscript-gpl.	Nov 26, 2018	Sep 5, 2018
Ghostscript	—	Upgrade to Ghostscript version 9.24	Oct 10, 2018	Sep 5, 2018
Suse	—	Upgrade libspectre-develUpgrade ghostscriptUpgrade ghostscript-miniUpgrade ghostscript-mini-develUpgrade libspectre1Upgrade ghostscript-develUpgrade ghostscript-x11	Oct 3, 2018	Sep 5, 2018
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade ghostscriptUpgrade libgs9	Oct 2, 2018	Sep 5, 2018

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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