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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-3838: Vulnerability in Ghostscript

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-3838: Vulnerability in Ghostscript

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/25/2019
Created
09/18/2019
Added
09/17/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-print-filter-ghostscript-9-27-11-4-13-0-1-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-print-filter-ghostscript-core-9-27-11-4-13-0-1-3-0

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