Detections
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CVE-2018-10194
high
Description
The set_text_distance function in devices/vector/gdevpdts.c in the pdfwrite component in Artifex Ghostscript through 9.22 does not prevent overflows in text-positioning calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3636-1/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00028.html
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040729
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879