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CVE-2019-6116

Published: Mar 21, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/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
HIGH
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6116
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

In Artifex Ghostscript through 9.26, ephemeral or transient procedures can allow access to system operators, leading to remote code execution.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ghostscript Artifex * 9.26 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat ghostscript-0:9.07-31.el7_6.9 *
Ghostscript Ubuntu bionic *
Ghostscript Ubuntu cosmic *
Ghostscript Ubuntu devel *
Ghostscript Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Ghostscript Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Ghostscript Ubuntu trusty *
Ghostscript Ubuntu xenial *

References

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