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CVE-2018-16540

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to the builtin PDF14 converter could use a use-after-free in copydevice handling to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.284

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Ghostscript 9.23Windows
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2019:0229) ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.9.i686.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2019:0229) ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.9.x86_64.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2019:0229) ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.9.noarch.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2019:0229) ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.9.x86_64.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2019:0229) ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.9.x86_64.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2019:0229) ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.9.i686.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2019:0229) ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.9.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0229) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.9.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0229) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.9.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0229) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.9.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0229) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.9.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0229) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.9.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0229) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.9.noarch.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0229) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.9.x86_64.rpmLinux
(CESA-2019:0229) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.9.noarch.rpmLinux
ghostscript Security Update (ALAS-2018-1088) ghostscript-devel-9.06-8.amzn2.0.5.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234