CVE-2018-16542

medium

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling to crash the interpreter.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699668

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105337

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b575e1ec42cc86f6a58c603f2a88fcc2af699cc8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-05

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H