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ghostscript — security advisory
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
- Products
- ghostscript
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 9.22~dfsg-3
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-15909
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15909
ghostscript
Fixed versions: 9.22~dfsg-3
ghostscript
Fixed versions: 9.22~dfsg-3
ghostscript
Fixed versions: 9.22~dfsg-3
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-08-27T17:29:00.437+00:00"
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