CVE-2018-10194
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10194
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-10194.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-10194
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-04-18T21:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The settextdistance function in devices/vector/gdevpdts.c in the pdfwrite component in Artifex Ghostscript through 9.22 does not prevent overflows in text-positioning calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.
- References
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- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040729
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00028.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3636-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879