CVE-2018-19478
published 2019-01-02CVE-2018-19478: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
PriorityP421medium5.5CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
EPSS
1.89%
77.2th percentile
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
Affected
7 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| artifex | ghostscript | < 9.26 | 9.26 |
| artifex | ghostscript | >= 0 < 9.26~dfsg-1 | 9.26~dfsg-1 |
| artifex | ghostscript | >= 0 < 9.26~dfsg-1 | 9.26~dfsg-1 |
| artifex | ghostscript | >= 0 < 9.26~dfsg-1 | 9.26~dfsg-1 |
| artifex | ghostscript | >= 0 < 9.26~dfsg-1 | 9.26~dfsg-1 |
| debian | debian_linux | — | — |
| debian | ghostscript | < ghostscript 9.26~dfsg-1 (bookworm) | ghostscript 9.26~dfsg-1 (bookworm) |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.05.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat7.8HIGH
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
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Red Hat
ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856)
vendor_redhat·2018-11-20·CVSS 7.8
CVE-2018-19478 [HIGH] ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856)
ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856)
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
Statement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
Mitigation: Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509
Package: ghostscript (Red Hat Enterprise Linu
Debian
CVE-2018-19478: ghostscript - In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an ...
vendor_debian·2018·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2018-19478 [MEDIUM] CVE-2018-19478: ghostscript - In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an ...
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 9.26~dfsg-1)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 9.26~dfsg-1)
forky: resolved (fixed in 9.26~dfsg-1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 9.26~dfsg-1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 9.26~dfsg-1)
GHSA
GHSA-fcmg-pjrg-hphj: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2018-19478 [MEDIUM] CWE-20 GHSA-fcmg-pjrg-hphj: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
OSV
CVE-2018-19478: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9
osv·2019-01-02·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2018-19478 [MEDIUM] CVE-2018-19478: In Artifex Ghostscript before 9
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-19478 ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856) [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2018-12-05·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2018-19478 [MEDIUM] CVE-2018-19478 ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856) [fedora-all]
CVE-2018-19478 ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856) [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 messag
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-19478 ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856)
bugzilla·2018-12-03·CVSS 7.8
CVE-2018-19478 [HIGH] CVE-2018-19478 ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856)
CVE-2018-19478 ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856)
Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF results in a long-running computation. The page tree nodes are deeply nested where a child page tree node may be a descendent of multiple parents.
Upstream bug:
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856
Upstream fix:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace
Discussion:
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1656319]
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Mitigation:
Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509
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Statement:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bacehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.htmlhttps://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htmhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bacehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.htmlhttps://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm
2019-01-02
Published