CVE-2018-16543
published 2018-09-05CVE-2018-16543: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow attackers to have an unspecified impact.
PriorityP432high7.8CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH
EPSS
1.27%
66.6th percentile
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow attackers to have an unspecified impact.
Affected
11 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| artifex | ghostscript | < 9.24 | 9.24 |
| artifex | ghostscript | >= 0 < 9.25~dfsg-1 | 9.25~dfsg-1 |
| artifex | ghostscript | >= 0 < 9.25~dfsg-1 | 9.25~dfsg-1 |
| artifex | ghostscript | >= 0 < 9.25~dfsg-1 | 9.25~dfsg-1 |
| artifex | ghostscript | >= 0 < 9.25~dfsg-1 | 9.25~dfsg-1 |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | ghostscript | < ghostscript 9.25~dfsg-1 (bookworm) | ghostscript 9.25~dfsg-1 (bookworm) |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv7.8HIGH
vendor_debian7.8HIGH
vendor_redhat7.8HIGH
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Ubuntu
Ghostscript vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2018-09-19
CVE-2018-11645 Ghostscript vulnerabilities
Title: Ghostscript vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript.
Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple security issues in Ghostscript. If a user
or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file,
a remote attacker could possibly use these issues to access arbitrary
files, execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service.
Instructions: In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Red Hat
ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670)
vendor_redhat·2018-09-06·CVSS 7.8
CVE-2018-16543 [HIGH] CWE-561 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670)
ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670)
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow attackers to have an unspecified impact.
It was discovered that the ghostscript gssetresolution and gsgetresolution procedures were available, although they have dangerous side effects. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and crash ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the ghostscript context via a specially crafted PostScript document.
Statement: CVE-2018-16543 requires the "device subclassing" feature to be present in ghostscript in order to exploit it and corrupt the interpreter's memory. This feature appeared in Ghostscript-9.18. Thus ghostscript 9.07, as shipped in Red Hat Enterpr
Debian
CVE-2018-16543: ghostscript - In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow at...
vendor_debian·2018·CVSS 7.8
CVE-2018-16543 [HIGH] CVE-2018-16543: ghostscript - In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow at...
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow attackers to have an unspecified impact.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 9.25~dfsg-1)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 9.25~dfsg-1)
forky: resolved (fixed in 9.25~dfsg-1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 9.25~dfsg-1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 9.25~dfsg-1)
GHSA
GHSA-rx4h-r779-69cp: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2018-16543 [HIGH] GHSA-rx4h-r779-69cp: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow attackers to have an unspecified impact.
OSV
CVE-2018-16543: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9
osv·2018-09-05·CVSS 7.8
CVE-2018-16543 [HIGH] CVE-2018-16543: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow attackers to have an unspecified impact.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670)
bugzilla·2018-09-06·CVSS 7.8
CVE-2018-16543 [HIGH] CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670)
CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670)
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow attackers to have an unspecified impact.
External Reference:
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928
https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/
Upstream Bug:
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699670
Upstream Patches:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=f52734ba87
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=c9b362ba908c
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=5b5536fa88a9
Discussion:
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1625852]
---
Upstream Patches:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670) [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2018-09-06·CVSS 7.8
CVE-2018-16543 [HIGH] CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670) [fedora-all]
CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670) [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-all.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects m
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5b5536fa88a9e885032bc0df3852c3439399a5c0https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699670https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5b5536fa88a9e885032bc0df3852c3439399a5c0https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699670https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288
2018-09-05
Published