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 advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-1363-1
Debian Bugs	896069

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
ghostscript (PTS)	buster	9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u5	fixed
	buster (security)	9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u6	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm, sid	9.56.1~dfsg-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	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

Notes

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