CVE-2019-14817
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
A flaw was found in, ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, in the .pdfexectoken and other procedures where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artifex Software | ghostscript | ghostscript versions prior to 9.28 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-648: CWE-648
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14817
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=cd1b1cacadac2479e291efe611979bdc1b3bdb19
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4518
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00007.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/15
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBUC4DBBJTRFNCR3IODBV4IXB2C2HI3V/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14817
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=cd1b1cacadac2479e291efe611979bdc1b3bdb19
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4518
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00007.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/15
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBUC4DBBJTRFNCR3IODBV4IXB2C2HI3V/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03
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