CVE-2018-17961
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17961
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17961.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-17961
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-10-15T16:29:02Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
- Severity
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- 8.6 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.
- References
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1682&desc=2
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a54c9e61e7d0
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a5a9bf8c6a63
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a6807394bd94