Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-19409

critical

CVE-2018-19409

ghostscript: Improperly implemented security check in zsetdevice function in psi/zdevice.c

Published Modified
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Amazon (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26. LockSafetyParams is not checked correctly if another device is used.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.11ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.12ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.13ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.14ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.15ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.16ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.17ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.18ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.19ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.20ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.21ghostscript9.26-r0
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SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.11ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.12ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.13ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.14ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.15ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.16ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.17ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.18ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.19ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.20ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.21ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.22ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.23ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.24ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.5ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.6ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.7ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.8ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine 3.9ghostscript9.26-r0
alpine edgeghostscript9.26-r0
amazon linux 2ghostscript9.25-5.amzn2
amazon linux 2ghostscript-cups9.25-5.amzn2
amazon linux 2ghostscript-debuginfo9.25-5.amzn2
amazon linux 2ghostscript-doc9.25-5.amzn2
amazon linux 2ghostscript-gtk9.25-5.amzn2
amazon linux 2libgs9.25-5.amzn2
amazon linux 2libgs-devel9.25-5.amzn2
debian 11ghostscript9.26~dfsg-1
debian 12ghostscript9.26~dfsg-1
debian 13ghostscript9.26~dfsg-1
debian 14ghostscript9.26~dfsg-1
debian 8ghostscript9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u12
debian 9ghostscript9.26~dfsg-0+deb9u1
echoghostscript9.26~dfsg-1
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript9.07-31.el7_6.6
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript-cups9.07-31.el7_6.6
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript-devel9.07-31.el7_6.6
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript-doc9.07-31.el7_6.6
Oracle Linux 7ghostscript-gtk9.07-31.el7_6.6
Red Hatghostscriptno fix listed
Red Hatghostscript-develno fix listed
Red Hatghostscript-docno fix listed
Red Hatghostscript-gtkno fix listed
root.io alpine 3.17rootio-ghostscript9.26-r0
root.io debian 12rootio-ghostscript9.26~dfsg-1
ubuntu 14.04ghostscript9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ubuntu 16.04ghostscript9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMghostscript9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 18.04ghostscript9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMghostscript9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.10ghostscript9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.1

References

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