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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-15909: Vulnerability in Ghostscript

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-15909: Vulnerability in Ghostscript

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/27/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/20/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-print-filter-ghostscript-9-26-0-175-3-36-0-10-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-print-filter-ghostscript-9-26-11-4-5-0-1-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-print-filter-ghostscript-core-9-26-11-4-5-0-1-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-print-filter-ghostscript-fonts-gnu-gs-fonts-other-6-0-11-4-5-0-1-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-print-filter-ghostscript-fonts-gnu-gs-fonts-std-8-11-11-4-5-0-1-2-0

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