CVE-2018-16513 — Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast in Ghostscript

CWE-704 — Incorrect Type Conversion or CastCWE-253 — Incorrect Check of Function Return Value8 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 51.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Artifex GhostscriptArtifex GPL GhostscriptPulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure+2 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 5
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function 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 Packages4 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

Patches

Patch: kb.pulsesecure.net ↗Patch: www.artifex.com ↗Patch: kb.pulsesecure.net ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-42x9-hxm2-mxpx: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-16513: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2018-09-05
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CVEList
CVE-2018-16513: 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: setcolor missing type check (699655)↗2018-08-21
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Debian
CVE-2018-16513: ghostscript - In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript ...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16513 ghostscript: setcolor missing type check (699655)↗2018-08-21
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