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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-16542) definemodifiedfont memory corruption if /typecheck is handled

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Severity	CVSS	Published	Added	Modified
4	(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)	Sep 5, 2018	Oct 10, 2018	Aug 11, 2025

Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Sep 5, 2018

Added

Oct 10, 2018

Modified

Aug 11, 2025

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling to crash the interpreter.

Solution

ghostscript-upgrade-9_24

References

CVE-2018-16542
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-16542
CWE-787
URL-https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699668

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