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CVE-2018-10194

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The set_text_distance function in devices/vector/gdevpdts.c in the pdfwrite component in Artifex Ghostscript through 9.22 does not prevent overflows in text-positioning calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: through 9.22
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.5, 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040729
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00028.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3636-1/
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040729
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00028.html

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