CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16509
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-05
- 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])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• artifex ghostscript (< 9.24)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
• artifex gpl ghostscript (< 9.26)
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33662a2afdc377159f70218e67bde5 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d590b4a91afac2e8417360b934156 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486a6595c43f1de1cd7ade696020a31 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=520bb0ea7519aa3e79db78aaf0589dae02103764 git.ghostscript.com
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/142 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105122 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3760 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699654 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4294 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45369/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33662a2afdc377159f70218e67bde5 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d590b4a91afac2e8417360b934156 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486a6595c43f1de1cd7ade696020a31 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=520bb0ea7519aa3e79db78aaf0589dae02103764 git.ghostscript.com
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/142 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105122 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3760 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699654 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4294 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45369/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry