| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1363-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 896069 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | stretch | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u6 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u7 | fixed | |
| buster, buster (security) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u4 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 9.54.0~dfsg-5 | fixed | |
| sid | 9.55.0~dfsg-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript | source | wheezy | 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u8 | DLA-1363-1 | ||
| ghostscript | source | jessie | 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u7 | |||
| ghostscript | source | stretch | 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u2 | |||
| ghostscript | source | (unstable) | 9.22~dfsg-2.1 | 896069 |
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255 (not yet public)