CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-15908
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (<= 9.23)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0d3901189f245232f0161addf215d7268c4d05a3 git.ghostscript.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0d3901189f245232f0161addf215d7268c4d05a3 git.ghostscript.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource