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FreeBSD: VID-30C0F878-B03E-11E8-BE8A-0011D823EEBD (CVE-2018-15909): Ghostscript -- arbitrary code execution

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FreeBSD: VID-30C0F878-B03E-11E8-BE8A-0011D823EEBD (CVE-2018-15909): Ghostscript -- arbitrary code execution

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/21/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/05/2018
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-ghostscript9-agpl-base
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-ghostscript9-agpl-x11

References

  • USN-3768-1
  • CVE-2018-15909

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