CVE-2018-16541: Artifex Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement to crash the interpreter.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: before 9.24 (fixed in 9.24)
• 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

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