CVE-2018-16802
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 10, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 10, 2018
Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20180909 Re: Ghostscript 9.24 issuesmailing-list
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=5812b1b78fc4d36fdc293b7859de69241140d590
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/229
- GLSA-201811-12vendor-advisory
- USN-3768-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2018:3834vendor-advisory
- DSA-4294vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180913 [SECURITY] [DLA 1504-1] ghostscript security updatemailing-list
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=643b24dbd002fb9c131313253c307cf3951b3d47
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e5d316b72e3965b7968bb1d96baa137cd063ac6
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