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.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229 | third party advisory vendor advisory |
| http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c432131c3fdb2143e148e8ba88555f7f7a63b25e | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 | third party advisory vendor advisory |
| https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699661 | issue tracking permissions required vendor advisory |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ | third party advisory vendor advisory |
| https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ | patch vendor advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 | third party advisory vendor advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html | third party advisory mailing list |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 | third party advisory vendor advisory |