vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-5ed7102e-6454-11e9-9a3a-001cc0382b2f (CVE-2019-3835): Ghostscript -- Security bypass vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 21, 2019
Added
Apr 22, 2019
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Cedric Buissart (Red Hat) reports: It was found that the superexec operator was available in the internal dictionary in ghostscript before 9.27. 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. It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. 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.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-ghostscript9-agpl-basefreebsd-upgrade-package-ghostscript9-agpl-x11
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