CVE-2018-17961 (GCVE-0-2018-17961)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-15 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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| http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=co… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
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| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/ | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB |
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Date Public
2018-10-09 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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