An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-09-05T06:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:24:32.894Z

Reserved: 2018-09-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-16509

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-05T06:29:00.483

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:53:46.447

Link: CVE-2018-16509

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16509 - Bugzilla