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SUSE: CVE-2018-15909: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-15909: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/27/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/03/2018
Modified
10/22/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-mini
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-mini-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ghostscript-x11
  • suse-upgrade-libspectre-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libspectre1

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2975-2
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2975-3
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2976-1
  • USN-3768-1
  • CVE-2018-15909

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