Vulnerability CVE-2018-16513
Published: 2018-09-05

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.

Type:

CWE-704

 (Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast)

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
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 
Artifex -> Ghostscript 
Artifex -> Gpl ghostscript 

 References:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288
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