Description
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.
Published: 2018-09-10
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1504-1 ghostscript security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4294-1 ghostscript security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-8602 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3768-1 Ghostscript vulnerabilities
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Artifex Ghostscript
Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Redhat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Desktop Enterprise Linux Server Enterprise Linux Server Aus Enterprise Linux Server Eus Enterprise Linux Server Tus Enterprise Linux Workstation
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:32:53.992Z

Reserved: 2018-09-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-16802

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-10T16:29:00.950

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:53:22.593

Link: CVE-2018-16802

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-09-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16802 - Bugzilla

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