UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15909

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15909

    Published: 27 Aug 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-15909
    Aliases:
    USN-3768-1

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15909, https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3768-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15909

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ghostscript

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13

    Affected versions

    9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High