Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast
CVE-2018-19134
Summary
In Artifex Ghostscript through 9.25, the setpattern operator did not properly validate certain types. A specially crafted PostScript document could exploit this to crash Ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the context of the Ghostscript process. This is a type confusion issue because of failure to check whether the Implementation of a pattern dictionary was a structure type.
- LOW
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-704 - Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast
The software does not correctly convert an object, resource, or structure from one type to a different type.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published