Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghostscript | Artifex | * | 9.25 (excluding) |
| Ubuntu_linux | Canonical | 14.04 (including) | 14.04 (including) |
| Ubuntu_linux | Canonical | 16.04 (including) | 16.04 (including) |
| Ubuntu_linux | Canonical | 18.04 (including) | 18.04 (including) |
| Debian_linux | Debian | 8.0 (including) | 8.0 (including) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | RedHat | ghostscript-0:9.07-31.el7_6.6 | * |
| Ghostscript | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Ghostscript | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Ghostscript | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Ghostscript | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Ghostscript | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Ghostscript | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fb713b3818b52d8a6cf62c951eba2e1795ff9624
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699708
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fb713b3818b52d8a6cf62c951eba2e1795ff9624
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699708
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/