CVE-2018-16542

NameCVE-2018-16542
DescriptionIn Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling to crash the interpreter.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1504-1, DSA-4288-1
Debian Bugs907332

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ghostscript (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)9.26a~dfsg-0+deb8u13fixed
stretch (security)9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u9fixed
stretch (lts), stretch9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u13fixed
buster, buster (lts)9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u10fixed
buster (security)9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u9fixed
bullseye9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7fixed
bullseye (security)9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u9fixed
bookworm10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5fixed
bookworm (security)10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6fixed
sid, trixie10.04.0~dfsg-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ghostscriptsourcejessie9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u8DLA-1504-1
ghostscriptsourcestretch9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4DSA-4288-1
ghostscriptsource(unstable)9.22~dfsg-3907332

Notes

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=b575e1ec42cc86f6a58c603f2a88fcc2af699cc8
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699668

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