CVE-2018-19478 Information

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26 a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.html https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5