PT-2019-9828 · Artifex+1 · Ghostscript+1

Cedric Buissart · Published 2018-11-27 · Updated 2025-01-13 · CVE-2018-19478

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 9.26

Description A carefully crafted PDF file can cause an extremely long running computation when parsing the file, indicating a potential issue with the parsing mechanism.

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

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2799

CVE-2018-19478

DLA-1620-1

DSA-4346-1

DSA-4346-2

ROSA-SA-2025-2549

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ghostscript

References · 16

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4346-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4346-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19478 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1620-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19478 · Security Note
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856 · Note
• https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/106445 · Note
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace · Note