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.
Advisories
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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2018-16802

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cve-icon NVD

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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