CVE-2018-16540 — Use After Free in Ghostscript

CWE-416 — Use After Free9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 48.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
11
Artifex GhostscriptCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+8 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 5
Latest updateMay 14

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to the builtin PDF14 converter could use a use-after-free in copydevice handling 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 7.0, 7.6, 7.5, Openshift Container Platform 3.11

Patches

Patch: www.artifex.com ↗Patch: www.artifex.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-685m-wc38-2pv8: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-16540: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2018-09-05
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CVEList
CVE-2018-16540: 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: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661)↗2018-09-06
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Debian
CVE-2018-16540: ghostscript - In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript ...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16540 ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661)↗2018-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16540 ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661) [fedora-all]↗2018-09-06
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