Artifex: >> Ghostscript >> 4.20 Security Vulnerabilities
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PDFs to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2018-09-05
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.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.012
Published
2018-09-05
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.036
Published
2018-08-28
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2018-08-27
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.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.031
Published
2018-08-27
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the LockDistillerParams parameter to crash the interpreter or execute code.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.054
Published
2018-08-27
psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.21rc1 permits the status command even if -dSAFER is used, which might allow remote attackers to determine the existence and size of arbitrary files, a similar issue to CVE-2016-7977.
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2018-06-01
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.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2018-04-18
Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently read arbitrary files via the use of the .libfile operator in a crafted postscript document.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2017-05-23
Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.008
Published
2017-05-23