Bug 1569108 – CVE-2018-10194 ghostscript: Stack-based out-of-bounds write in pdf_set_text_matrix function in gdevpdts.c

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Bug 1569108 - (CVE-2018-10194) CVE-2018-10194 ghostscript: Stack-based out-of-bounds write in pdf_set_text_matrix function in gdevpdts.c

Summary:	CVE-2018-10194 ghostscript: Stack-based out-of-bounds write in pdf_set_text_m...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-10194

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1569818 1569819 1569820 1569821 1629842
Blocks:	1569109
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Reported:	2018-04-18 11:45 EDT by Pedro Sampaio
Modified:	2018-10-31 21:31 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:2918	None	None	None	2018-10-15 22:25 EDT

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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-04-18 11:45:11 EDT

pdf_set_text_matrix in gdevpdts.c in Artifex Ghostscript through 9.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (spprint.c pprintg1 stack-based out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document.

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-04-19 22:35:31 EDT

Upstream ticket:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255

Upstream patch:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879

Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2018-04-19 23:03:20 EDT

Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1569821]

Comment 6 Doran Moppert 2018-04-19 23:05:29 EDT

oss-security:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/04/19/5

Comment 12 Doran Moppert 2018-04-26 23:08:15 EDT

Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-15 22:25:20 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:2918 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918

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