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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-16511) Missing type check in type checker

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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-16511) Missing type check in type checker

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/10/2018
Modified
05/09/2019

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(s)

  • ghostscript-upgrade-9_24

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