CVE-2018-16863
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artifex | ghostscript | 9.07 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-184: CWE-184
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=520bb0ea7519
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=520bb0ea7519
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