CVE-2018-16510

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Modified
Published: 05 Sept 2018, 06:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 10:24

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.22% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Sept 2018, 06:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 10:24
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PDFs to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.22%• Percentile: 45%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • Unknown•Ghostscript

    < 9.24

  • artifex•gpl_ghostscript

    < 9.26

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    14.04 | 16.04 | 18.04

References (6)