| Name | CVE-2018-15909 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1504-1, DSA-4288-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 907332 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | bullseye, bullseye (security) | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bookworm | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.04.0~dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0b6cd1918e1ec4ffd087400a754a845180a4522b
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=e01e77a36cbb2e0277bc3a63852244bec41be0f6
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699660
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928