CVE-2018-15911
N/A
Published: August 28, 2018 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:43 AM UTC
11 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxEnterprise Linux Desktop
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v ≤ 9.23
v < 9.26
Affected range stops below 9.26, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%8.2r1.0 ≤ v < 8.2r12.18.3r1 ≤ v < 8.3r7.19.0r1 ≤ v < 9.0r3.4
Affected range stops below 8.2r12.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 8.3r7.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 9.0r3.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
95%
Enterprise Linux Server· Red Hatrubygems
95%95%
95%
95%
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (11)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105122Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834x_refsource_MISCPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699665x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSSQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-908
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