CVE-2018-16513
ghostscript: setcolor missing type check (699655)
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · August 21, 2018
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
It was discovered that the ghostscript did not properly validate the operands passed to the setcolor function. 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
Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1619748#c3
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE-253 · Incorrect Check of Function Return Value