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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-16802) Restoration of Privilege Checking Code Execution Vulnerability

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Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2018-16802) Restoration of Privilege Checking Code Execution Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/10/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/10/2018
Modified
05/09/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ghostscript-upgrade-9_25

References

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