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

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

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/02/2018
Modified
05/03/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9

References

  • USN-3768-1
  • USN-3773-1
  • GLSA-201811-12
  • CVE-2018-16510

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