Medium severity · published Jan 2, 2019
CVE-2018-19478
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file
5.5
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
GH
Ghostscript · Artifex
before 9.26 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19478
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19478
git.ghostscript.com
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.html
Release Notes
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm
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