CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-16513

Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Published: Sep 05, 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 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Weakness

The product does not correctly convert an object, resource, or structure from one type to a different type.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ghostscript Artifex * 9.24 (excluding)
Ghostscript Ubuntu bionic *
Ghostscript Ubuntu devel *
Ghostscript Ubuntu trusty *
Ghostscript Ubuntu upstream *
Ghostscript Ubuntu xenial *

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