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CVE-2018-15908

Published: Aug 27, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.3 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15908
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ghostscript Artifex * 9.23 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat ghostscript-0:9.07-31.el7_6.1 *
Ghostscript Ubuntu bionic *
Ghostscript Ubuntu devel *
Ghostscript Ubuntu trusty *
Ghostscript Ubuntu upstream *
Ghostscript Ubuntu xenial *

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