CVE-2018-16510

ghostscript: Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives (699671)

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · September 6, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

It was discovered that ghostscript did not properly handle certain error conditions related to the SC and CS PDF operators. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and crash ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the ghostscript context via a specially crafted PostScript document.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation