DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3781

A trivial sandbox (enabled with the -dSAFER option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3781

Affected packages

Debian:12 / ghostscript

Package

Name: ghostscript
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

9.53.3~dfsg-8

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3781.json"

Debian:13 / ghostscript

Package

Name: ghostscript
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

9.53.3~dfsg-8

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3781.json"

Debian:14 / ghostscript

Package

Name: ghostscript
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

9.53.3~dfsg-8

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3781.json"