Use-after-free vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript PDF14 Converter

Use-after-free vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript PDF14 Converter

CVE-2018-16540 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to the builtin PDF14 converter could use a use-after-free in copydevice handling to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

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