CVE-2018-16863
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.3 High
- Published
- Dec 3, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 11, 2018
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 7.3 High | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ghostscriptArtifex |
|
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
- RHSA-2018:3761vendor-advisory
- 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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