CVE-2018-15911 Information

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24 attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=8e9ce5016db968b40e4ec255a3005f2786cce45f http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105122 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699665 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://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8