CVE-2018-16863

7.3HIGH

Key Information

Vendor
Artifex
Status
Ghostscript
Vendor
CVE Published:
3 December 2018

Summary

It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Affected Version(s)

ghostscript = 9.07

Refferences

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh...
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http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh...
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761
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http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh...
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http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.3
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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