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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-16541) Incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement

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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-16541) Incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/10/2018
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement to crash the interpreter.

Solution(s)

  • ghostscript-upgrade-9_24

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