CVE-2018-16510: Artifex Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS" and "SC" PDF primitives could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PDFs to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: before 9.24 (fixed in 9.24)
• Artifex Gpl Ghostscript: before 9.26 (fixed in 9.26)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only

Published 2018-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.