CVE-2018-10194

Name
CVE-2018-10194
Description
The set_text_distance function in devices/vector/gdevpdts.c in the pdfwrite component in Artifex Ghostscript through 9.22 does not prevent overflows in text-positioning calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Issue Tracking https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255
Patch http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040729
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00028.html
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3636-1/
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ghostscript >= None <= 9.22

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status