CVE-2018-16509
See a problem?- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16509
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16509.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16509
- Related
- Published
- 2018-09-05T06:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2024-09-18T01:00:21Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105122
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3760
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4294
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45369/
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/142
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699654
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33662a2afdc377159f70218e67bde5
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d590b4a91afac2e8417360b934156
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486a6595c43f1de1cd7ade696020a31
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=520bb0ea7519aa3e79db78aaf0589dae02103764
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16509
Affected packages
Debian:11 / ghostscript
Package
- Name
- ghostscript
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source
Debian:12 / ghostscript
Package
- Name
- ghostscript
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source
Debian:13 / ghostscript
Package
- Name
- ghostscript
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source