Published: 19/09/2018 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

Artifex Ghostscript prior to 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code.

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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 ...

Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript ...

Debian Bug report logs - #911175 ghostscript: CVE-2018-18284: 1Policy operator gives access to forceput Package: src:ghostscript; Maintainer for src:ghostscript is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:09:02 UTC Severi ...

Artifex Ghostscript before 925 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code (CVE-2018-17183) Artifex Ghostscript 925 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involv ...

Artifex Ghostscript before 925 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code ...

NVD-CWE-noinfo https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699708 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fb713b3818b52d8a6cf62c951eba2e1795ff9624 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

CVE-2018-17183

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