CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-15911

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Aug 28, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Debian_linux Debian 8.0 (including) 8.0 (including)
Debian_linux Debian 9.0 (including) 9.0 (including)
Ghostscript Ubuntu bionic *
Ghostscript Ubuntu devel *
Ghostscript Ubuntu trusty *
Ghostscript Ubuntu upstream *
Ghostscript Ubuntu xenial *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat ghostscript-0:9.07-31.el7_6.6 *

Potential Mitigations

References