CVE-2018-19478

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

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

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htmRelease Notes
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htmRelease Notes

Timeline

Published: Jan 2, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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