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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-16540) Use-after-free in copydevice handling

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Sep 5, 2018

Added

Oct 10, 2018

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to the builtin PDF14 converter could use a use-after-free in copydevice handling to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Solution

ghostscript-upgrade-9_24

References

CVE-2018-16540
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-16540
CWE-416
EUVD-EUVD-2018-8349
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699661
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-8349

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