CVE-2018-10194

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 (attack range: remote)
Debian Bugs	896069

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
ghostscript (PTS)	jessie	9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u7	fixed
	jessie (security)	9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u13	fixed
	stretch	9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5	fixed
	stretch (security)	9.26~dfsg-0+deb9u2	fixed
	buster, sid	9.26~dfsg-2	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
ghostscript	source	(unstable)	9.22~dfsg-2.1	medium		896069
ghostscript	source	jessie	9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u7	medium
ghostscript	source	stretch	9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u2	medium
ghostscript	source	wheezy	9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u8	medium	DLA-1363-1

Notes

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255 (not yet public)