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CVE-2018-19134 (GCVE-0-2018-19134)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-20 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:30
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Summary
In Artifex Ghostscript through 9.25, the setpattern operator did not properly validate certain types. A specially crafted PostScript document could exploit this to crash Ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the context of the Ghostscript process. This is a type confusion issue because of failure to check whether the Implementation of a pattern dictionary was a structure type.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2018-11-20 00:00
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