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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-16863: Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update (CESA-2018:3761)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-16863: Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update (CESA-2018:3761)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/03/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/15/2018
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-cups
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-devel
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-doc
  • centos-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk

References

  • CVE-2018-16863
  • RHSA-2018:3761

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