CVE-2018-15911 — Use of Uninitialized Resource in GPL Ghostscript

CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized ResourceCWE-456 — Missing Initialization of a Variable9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
11
Artifex GhostscriptArtifex GPL GhostscriptPulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure+8 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 28
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator 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, 9.0, 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-qm8r-ppx2-rghp: In Artifex Ghostscript 9↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-15911: In Artifex Ghostscript 9↗2018-08-28
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OSV
CVE-2018-15911: In Artifex Ghostscript 9↗2018-08-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Ghostscript vulnerabilities↗2018-09-19
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Red Hat
ghostscript: Uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator (699665)↗2018-09-06
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Debian
CVE-2018-15911: ghostscript - In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted ...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-15911 ghostscript: Uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator (699665)↗2018-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-15911 ghostscript: uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator (699665) [fedora-all]↗2018-09-06
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CVE-2018-15911 — Use of Uninitialized Resource | cvebase