CVE-2018-16511

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2018-08-24
Bugzilla:
1621359: CVE-2018-16511 ghostscript: missing type check in type checker (699659)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. A type confusion in "ztype" could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Find out more about CVE-2018-16511 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 7.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 mediawiki Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 mediawiki Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 mediawiki Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 mediawiki Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 mediawiki Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 mediawiki Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 mediawiki Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 mediawiki Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 mediawiki Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ghostscript Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ghostscript Will not fix

Mitigation

Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1619748#c3

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