Vulnerability CVE-2018-16510
Published: 2018-09-05

Description:
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PDFs to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 
Artifex -> Ghostscript 
Artifex -> Gpl ghostscript 

 References:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=ea735ba37dc0fd5f5622d031830b9a559dec1cc9
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/27/4
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699671
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/
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