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CVE-2018-15909 Detail

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b6cd1918e1ec4ffd087400a754a845180a4522b CVE, MITRE
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e01e77a36cbb2e0277bc3a63852244bec41be0f6 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105178 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 CVE, MITRE Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K24803507?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928 CVE, MITRE Patch  Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-15909
NVD Published Date:
08/27/2018
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
MITRE