Vulnerabilites related to The ghostscript Project - ghostscript
cve-2019-3835
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-25 18:30
Modified
2024-08-04 19:19
Summary
It was found that the superexec operator was available in the internal dictionary 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
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3835x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700585x_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
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https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.htmlx_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.htmlvendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Show details on NVD website


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cve-2019-3838
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-25 18:30
Modified
2024-08-04 19:19
Summary
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
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576x_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.htmlvendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.htmlvendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Show details on NVD website


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cve-2019-3839
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-05-16 18:31
Modified
2024-08-04 19:19
Summary
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. 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. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.
Impacted products
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