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Ubuntu: USN-3768-1 (CVE-2018-16541): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3768-1 (CVE-2018-16541): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/02/2018
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement to crash the interpreter.

Solution(s)

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

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