CVE-2018-15909

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    CVE-2018-15909

    Published: 27 Aug 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

    References: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K24803507?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS, http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b6cd1918e1ec4ffd087400a754a845180a4522b, http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e01e77a36cbb2e0277bc3a63852244bec41be0f6, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105178, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12, https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928, https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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