Bug 1655607 (CVE-2018-19478) - CVE-2018-19478 ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856)
Summary: CVE-2018-19478 ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file r...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-19478
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1655682 1656319 1656337
Blocks: 1655596
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-12-03 14:28 UTC by Cedric Buissart
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:43 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: ghostscript 9.26
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:43:27 UTC
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Description Cedric Buissart 2018-12-03 14:28:34 UTC 
Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF results in a long-running computation. The page tree nodes are deeply nested where a child page tree node may be a descendent of multiple parents.

Upstream bug:
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856

Upstream fix:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace
Comment 4 Cedric Buissart 2018-12-05 09:12:11 UTC 
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1656319]
Comment 6 Cedric Buissart 2018-12-05 12:38:37 UTC 
Mitigation:

Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509
Comment 7 Cedric Buissart 2018-12-18 08:40:47 UTC 
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/.
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