ubuntu · CVE-2018-15909

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:48:26 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-15909 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ghostscript), 4 status rows across 4 suites (bionic, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 4.

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.

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