Ghostscript Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 19 Sep 2018 Release Date: 23 Aug 2018 5011 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Servers - Other Servers

A vulnerability has been identified in Ghostscript. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to perform remote code execution on the targeted system.

Impact

Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

Please refer to the vendor information list in the following link:
www.kb.cert.org/vuls/byvendor

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

The vendors have issued fixes.

Vulnerability Identifier

CVE-2018-16509

Source

CERT (SEI)