CVE-2018-19478

medium

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.

References

https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-01-02

Updated: 2024-11-21

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

Severity: Medium