vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-16540: Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:0229)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 5, 2018
Added
Feb 1, 2019
Modified
Feb 19, 2026

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to the builtin PDF14 converter could use a use-after-free in copydevice handling to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Solutions

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