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CVE-2018-16543

Published: 05/09/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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In Artifex Ghostscript prior to 9.24, gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow malicious users to have an unspecified impact.

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Ubuntu Security Notice: ghostscript vulnerabilities
Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript ...
Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: ghostscript: CVE-2018-16510
Debian Bug report logs - #908304 ghostscript: CVE-2018-16510 Package: src:ghostscript; Maintainer for src:ghostscript is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 08:57:09 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security, upstream F ...
Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: ghostscript: CVE-2018-16585
Debian Bug report logs - #908305 ghostscript: CVE-2018-16585 Package: src:ghostscript; Maintainer for src:ghostscript is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 09:06:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security, upstream F ...
Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: ghostscript: CVE-2018-16543
Debian Bug report logs - #908303 ghostscript: CVE-2018-16543 Package: src:ghostscript; Maintainer for src:ghostscript is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 08:57:05 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security, upstream F ...
Red Hat: CVE-2018-16543
It was discovered that the ghostscript gssetresolution and gsgetresolution procedures were available, although they have dangerous side effects An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and crash ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the ghostscript context via a specially crafted PostScript document ...

References

NVD-CWE-noinfohttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699670https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5b5536fa88a9e885032bc0df3852c3439399a5c0https://nvd.nist.govhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
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