CVE-2018-16540 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript versions prior to 9.24, also affecting Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat distributions. It allows attackers to crash the interpreter or achieve other unspecified impact by supplying crafted PostScript files to the builtin PDF14 converter. This vulnerability has a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 9.24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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