CVE-2018-16511 — Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast in Ghostscript

CWE-704 — Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
9
Artifex GhostscriptCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+6 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 5
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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.

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 Packages5 packages

▶Debianartifex/ghostscript< 9.22~dfsg-3+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 7.6

Patches

Patch: seclists.org ↗Patch: www.artifex.com ↗Patch: seclists.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-vxh8-pqmf-3m72: An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-16511: An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2018-09-05
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CVEList
CVE-2018-16511: An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2018-09-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Ghostscript vulnerabilities↗2018-09-19
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Red Hat
ghostscript: missing type check in type checker (699659)↗2018-08-24
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Debian
CVE-2018-16511: ghostscript - An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. A type confusion in ...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16511 ghostscript: missing type check in type checker (699659) [fedora-all]↗2018-09-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16511 ghostscript: missing type check in type checker (699659)↗2018-08-23
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