CVE-2018-16511
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16511
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16511.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16511
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-09-05T06:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Severity
-
- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. A type confusion in "ztype" could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.
- References
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- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/182
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699659
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
- https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0edd3d6c634a577db261615a9dc2719bca7f6e01
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16511
Affected packages
Debian:11 / ghostscript
Package
- Name
- ghostscript
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source
Debian:12 / ghostscript
Package
- Name
- ghostscript
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source
Debian:13 / ghostscript
Package
- Name
- ghostscript
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source
Debian:14 / ghostscript
Package
- Name
- ghostscript
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source