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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-19478) Input validation vulnerability

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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-19478) Input validation vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/02/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/15/2019
Modified
05/09/2019

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.

Solution(s)

  • ghostscript-upgrade-9_26

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