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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16802: Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update (RHSA-2018:3834)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16802: Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update (RHSA-2018:3834)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/10/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/18/2018
Modified
03/03/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-cups
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk

References

  • DSA-4294
  • CVE-2018-16802
  • RHSA-2018:3834

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