Published: 15/10/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.6 | Impact Score: 6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 685

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and previous versions allows malicious users to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.

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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 - #910678 ghostscript: CVE-2018-17961: bypassing executeonly to escape -dSAFER sandbox Package: src:ghostscript; Maintainer for src:ghostscript is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 19:12:02 UTC S ...

Debian Bug report logs - #910758 ghostscript: CVE-2018-18073: saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays Package: src:ghostscript; Maintainer for src:ghostscript is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 19:27:02 UTC S ...

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 925 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183 ...

Artifex Ghostscript 925 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup ...

While documenting bug 1675, I noticed another problem with errordict in ghostscript Full working exploit that works in the last few versions is attached, viewing it in evince, imagemagick, gimp, okular, etc should add a line to ~/bashrc Additionally, because nautilus will automatically invoke evince-thumbnailer without any user-interaction, just ...

CWE-209 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1682&desc=2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a5a9bf8c6a63 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a6807394bd94 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a54c9e61e7d0 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/

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