fkie_cve-2019-3838
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2019-03-25 19:29
Modified
2024-11-21 04:42
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
artifex ghostscript *
redhat ansible_tower 3.3
redhat enterprise_linux 5.0
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0
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
fedoraproject fedora 28
fedoraproject fedora 29
fedoraproject fedora 30
opensuse leap 15.0
opensuse leap 42.3
debian debian_linux 8.0
debian debian_linux 9.0


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