CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17961
8.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-209
Description
Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 9.25)
• 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
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• 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 server tus 7.6
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-209 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a54c9e61e7d0 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a5a9bf8c6a63 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a6807394bd94 git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1682&desc=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a54c9e61e7d0 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a5a9bf8c6a63 git.ghostscript.com
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a6807394bd94 git.ghostscript.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1682&desc=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry