CVE-2019-3838

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3838
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-3838.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-3838
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-03-25T19:29:01.727Z
Modified
2026-03-10T22:43:53.851324Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
799cf865a224b60a7de50d2909abf7f66e9e34e3
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "9.27"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

9.*
9.21rc1
9.27rc1
gs9.*
gs9.26rc1
Other
gs918
gs919
gs920
gs920rc1
gs921
gs922
gs922rc1
gs922rc2
gs923
gs923rc1
gs924
gs924rc2
gs925
gs925rc1
gs926

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "5.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "6.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.6"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.6"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.6"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "28"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "29"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "30"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "15.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "42.3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-3838.json"