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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-16513: GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-16513: GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/26/2018
Modified
11/26/2018

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-text-ghostscript-gpl

References

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