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Ubuntu: USN-5075-1 (CVE-2021-3781): Ghostscript vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5075-1 (CVE-2021-3781): Ghostscript vulnerability

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/10/2021
Created
09/20/2021
Added
09/11/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A trivial sandbox (enabled with the `-dSAFER` option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9

References

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