vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3915-1 (CVE-2019-3838): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 21, 2019
Added
Apr 1, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

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

ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscriptubuntu-upgrade-libgs9
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