| Name | CVE-2018-16513 |
| Description | In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact. |
| 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-1504-1, DSA-4288-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 907332 |
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+deb9u8 | fixed | |
| buster | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u4 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u5 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2 | fixed | |
| bookworm, 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 | jessie | 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u8 | DLA-1504-1 | ||
| ghostscript | source | stretch | 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4 | DSA-4288-1 | ||
| ghostscript | source | (unstable) | 9.22~dfsg-3 | 907332 |
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655