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FKIE_CVE-2018-17961

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-10-15 16:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:46

Severity

8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a54c9e61e7d0
cve@mitre.org	http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a5a9bf8c6a63
cve@mitre.org	http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a6807394bd94
cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4	Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1682&desc=2	Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816	Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a54c9e61e7d0
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a5a9bf8c6a63
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a6807394bd94
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4	Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1682&desc=2	Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816	Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
artifex	ghostscript	*
debian	debian_linux	8.0
debian	debian_linux	9.0
canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04
canonical	ubuntu_linux	16.04
canonical	ubuntu_linux	18.04
canonical	ubuntu_linux	18.10
redhat	enterprise_linux_desktop	7.0
redhat	enterprise_linux_server	7.0
redhat	enterprise_linux_server_aus	7.6
redhat	enterprise_linux_server_eus	7.6
redhat	enterprise_linux_server_tus	7.6
redhat	enterprise_linux_workstation	7.0

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CVE-2018-17961 (GCVE-0-2018-17961)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-15 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:01

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

11 references

URL	Tags
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=co…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=co…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=co…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/d…	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2018-10-09 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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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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