CVE-2018-16513: Artifex Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function 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
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure: from 8.2r1.0, before 8.2r12.1 (fixed in 8.2r12.1); from 8.3r1, before 8.3r7.1 (fixed in 8.3r7.1); from 9.0r1, before 9.0r3.4 (fixed in 9.0r3.4)

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