CVE-2018-18073
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-15 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:01
Severity ?
Summary
Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c
cve@mitre.orghttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149758/Ghostscript-Exposed-System-Operators.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149758/Ghostscript-Exposed-System-Operators.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336Third Party Advisory
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