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CVE-2018-16863

Published: 03/12/2018 Updated: 12/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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Vendor Advisories

Red Hat: Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update
Synopsis Important: ghostscript security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste ...
Red Hat: CVE-2018-16863
It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509 An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document ...

References

CWE-184https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67dhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=520bb0ea7519https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761https://nvd.nist.govhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16863
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