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FreeBSD: VID-30c0f878-b03e-11e8-be8a-0011d823eebd (CVE-2018-15908): Ghostscript -- arbitrary code execution

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Sep 4, 2018

Added

Sep 5, 2018

Modified

Jun 15, 2026

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-ghostscript9-agpl-basefreebsd-upgrade-package-ghostscript9-agpl-x11

References

CVE-2018-15908
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-15908
EUVD-EUVD-2018-7764
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-7764

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