CVE-2018-16863 (GCVE-0-2018-16863)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-03 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:32
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Summary
It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=520bb0ea7519
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=520bb0ea7519
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Artifex ghostscript Version: 9.07
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