vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-16509: Security patch for ghostscript (ALAS-2018-1137)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Sep 5, 2018 | Dec 21, 2018 | Oct 14, 2022 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 5, 2018
Added
Dec 21, 2018
Modified
Oct 14, 2022
Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-ghostscript
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