vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-16510): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 5, 2018
Added
Oct 2, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PDFs to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscriptubuntu-upgrade-libgs9
Title
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