cve-2021-3781
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-16 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:09
Severity ?
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002271Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://ghostscript.com/CVE-2021-3781.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-11Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002271Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ghostscript.com/CVE-2021-3781.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-11Third Party Advisory
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