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Red Hat: CVE-2018-15911: Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update (RHSA-2018:3834)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-15911: Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update (RHSA-2018:3834)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/28/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/18/2018
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-cups
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk

References

  • 105122
  • DSA-4288
  • CVE-2018-15911
  • RHSA-2018:3834

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