vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-3838: Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 25, 2019
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-ghostscript
Title
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