It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1792-1 ghostscript security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2989-1 ghostscript security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4442-1 ghostscript security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-13459 It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3970-1 Ghostscript vulnerability
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00129}

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{'score': 0.00132}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T19:19:18.593Z

Reserved: 2019-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-3839

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-05-16T19:29:05.427

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:42:40.350

Link: CVE-2019-3839

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-05-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-3839 - Bugzilla

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