An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade ghostscript | Nov 9, 2018 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade ghostscript-gtkUpgrade ghostscript-develUpgrade ghostscript-docUpgrade ghostscript-debuginfoUpgrade ghostscript-cupsUpgrade ghostscript | Apr 27, 2020 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade ghostscript-debuginfoUpgrade ghostscript-docUpgrade ghostscript-cupsUpgrade ghostscript-gtkUpgrade ghostscriptUpgrade ghostscript-devel | Dec 20, 2018 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade ghostscript | Sep 18, 2018 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade app-text/ghostscript-gpl. | Nov 26, 2018 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Ghostscript | — | Upgrade to Ghostscript version 9.25 | Oct 10, 2018 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade ghostscript-cupsUpgrade ghostscript | Feb 22, 2019 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade ghostscript-cupsUpgrade ghostscript | Feb 15, 2019 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade ghostscript-cupsUpgrade ghostscript | Jan 9, 2019 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade ghostscript-develUpgrade ghostscript-docUpgrade ghostscript-gtkUpgrade ghostscript-cupsUpgrade ghostscript | Dec 18, 2018 | Sep 12, 2018 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade ghostscript-docUpgrade ghostscript-develUpgrade ghostscriptUpgrade ghostscript-debuginfoUpgrade ghostscript-cupsUpgrade ghostscript-gtk | Dec 18, 2018 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade ghostscript-mini-develUpgrade libspectre1Upgrade ghostscriptUpgrade libspectre-develUpgrade ghostscript-develUpgrade ghostscript-x11Upgrade ghostscript-mini | Oct 4, 2018 | Sep 10, 2018 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade ghostscriptUpgrade libgs9 | Oct 2, 2018 | Sep 10, 2018 |
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