CVE-2018-19477

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

psi/zfjbig2.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions because of a JBIG2Decode type confusion.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-704

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef252e7dc214bcbd9a2539216aab9202848602bb
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=606a22e77e7f081781e99e44644cd0119f559e03
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106154Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700168Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://semmle.com/news/semmle-discovers-severe-vulnerability-ghostscript-postscript-pdfExploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3831-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4346Third Party Advisory
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm#Version9.26Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef252e7dc214bcbd9a2539216aab9202848602bb
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=606a22e77e7f081781e99e44644cd0119f559e03
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106154Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700168Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://semmle.com/news/semmle-discovers-severe-vulnerability-ghostscript-postscript-pdfExploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3831-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4346Third Party Advisory
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm#Version9.26Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 23, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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