CVE-2018-16510 Information

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.

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=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/

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