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.
CVE-2018-16510
Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-14. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8(medium)
- EPSS
- 75.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 5, 2018
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (12)
- cve@mitrehttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea735ba37dc0fd5f5622d031830b9a559dec1cc9
- cve@mitrehttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/27/4
- cve@mitrehttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699671
- cve@mitrehttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- cve@mitrehttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
- cve@mitrehttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea735ba37dc0fd5f5622d031830b9a559dec1cc9
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/27/4
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699671
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/
Patch Availability(2)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libgs9-common (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) @ xenial | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libgs9-common (9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2) @ bionic | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
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