vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-16511: ghostscript -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 5, 2018
Added
Sep 9, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ghostscript
Title
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