CVE-2018-15911

7.8HIGH

Key Information

Vendor
Debian
Status
Debian Linux
Vendor
CVE Published:
28 August 2018

Summary

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699665
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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