CVE-2018-16509
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2018-09-05 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect restoration of privilege checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the pipe instruction.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.8 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Version: | 3.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | Required |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2018-3760 | 2018-12-03 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2018-2918 | 2018-10-15 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (ghostscript) | OVMSA-2018-0285 | 2018-12-05 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (ghostscript) | OVMSA-2018-0285 | 2018-12-05 |
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