PT-2018-2507 · Artifex+5 · Ghostscript+5

Man Yue Mo · Published 2018-11-14 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-19477

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ghostscript versions prior to 9.26

Description The issue is related to a type confusion in JBIG2Decode, allowing remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. This is due to errors in the JBIG2Decode type.

Recommendations For Ghostscript versions prior to 9.26, update to version 9.26 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Type Confusion

Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-843

CWE-704

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2799

BDU:2019-00877

CESA-2019_0229

CVE-2018-19477

DLA-1598-1

DSA-4346-1

DSA-4346-2

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4138-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4140-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1

RHSA-2019:0229

RHSA-2019_0229

SUSE-SU-2018:4087-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4090-2

USN-3831-1

USN-3831-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Ghostscript

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 96

• 🔥 https://semmle.com/news/semmle-discovers-severe-vulnerability-ghostscript-postscript-pdf · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19477 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19476 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-19477 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19477 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:4087-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4346-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19476 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19476 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:4090-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3831-2 · Vendor Advisory