ghsa-wvh9-rmg8-crq6
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:14
Modified
2022-05-13 01:14
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details

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.

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{
   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2019-3838",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2019-03-25T19:29:00Z",
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "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.",
   id: "GHSA-wvh9-rmg8-crq6",
   modified: "2022-05-13T01:14:38Z",
   published: "2022-05-13T01:14:38Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3838",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
}


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