vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-16541): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 5, 2018
Added
Oct 2, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscriptubuntu-upgrade-libgs9
Title
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