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CVE-2018-16802

Published: Sep 10, 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-2018-16802
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect restoration of privilege checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the pipe instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ghostscript Artifex * 9.25 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat ghostscript-0:9.07-31.el7_6.6 *
Ghostscript Ubuntu bionic *
Ghostscript Ubuntu devel *
Ghostscript Ubuntu trusty *
Ghostscript Ubuntu xenial *

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