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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16509: ghostscript security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16509: ghostscript security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/31/2018
Modified
12/31/2018

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-ghostscript
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-ghostscript-cups

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