PT-2018-13620 · Artifex+5 · Ghostscript+5

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2018-09-05 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-16541

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Artifex Ghostscript versions prior to 9.24

Description The issue arises from incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement, allowing attackers who can supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter.

Recommendations For versions prior to 9.24, update to version 9.24 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2344

CESA-2018_3834

CVE-2018-16541

DLA-1504-1

DSA-4288-1

MGASA-2018-0378

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:3687-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3036-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3038-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3051-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1

RHSA-2018:3834

RHSA-2018_3834

SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2975-2

SUSE-SU-2018:2975-3

SUSE-SU-2018:2976-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3330-1

USN-3768-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Ghostscript

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 150

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2018:3687-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16539 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16511 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15908 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2975-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3768-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16541 · Security Note
• https://artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:3330-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16543 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1504-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 · Vendor Advisory