CVE-2018-15909 — Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast in GPL Ghostscript

CWE-704 — Incorrect Type Conversion or CastCWE-843 — Type Confusion9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.3%
top 15.32%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
11
Artifex GhostscriptArtifex GPL GhostscriptPulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure+8 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 27
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages7 packages

▶Debianartifex/ghostscript< 9.22~dfsg-3+3
▶NVDpulsesecure/pulse_connect_secure8.2r1.0 — 8.2r12.1+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 7.6

Patches

Patch: kb.pulsesecure.net ↗Patch: www.kb.cert.org ↗Patch: kb.pulsesecure.net ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-cxqh-5r8h-v8xv: In Artifex Ghostscript 9↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-15909: In Artifex Ghostscript 9↗2018-08-27
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CVEList
CVE-2018-15909: In Artifex Ghostscript 9↗2018-08-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Ghostscript vulnerabilities↗2018-09-19
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Red Hat
ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660)↗2018-08-28
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Debian
CVE-2018-15909: ghostscript - In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfil...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-15909 ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660) [fedora-all]↗2018-08-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-15909 ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660)↗2018-08-23
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