CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-3839
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-05-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-648
Description
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 9.27)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• opensuse leap 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
• fedoraproject fedora 29
• fedoraproject fedora 30
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.04
• redhat enterprise linux 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs weakness
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9 git.ghostscript.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9 git.ghostscript.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442 Third Party Advisory