PT-2018-13621 · Artifex+5 · Ghostscript+5

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2018-09-05 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-16542

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 insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling. Attackers who can supply crafted PostScript files could potentially crash the interpreter.

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

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2344

CESA-2018_2918

CVE-2018-16542

DLA-1504-1

DSA-4288-1

MGASA-2018-0378

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3036-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3038-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1

RHSA-2018:2918

RHSA-2018_2918

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 · 117

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15910 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2976-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11645 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16542 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16539 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16509 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16511 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0378 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16542 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15908 · Vendor Advisory