CVE-2018-15908

Name

CVE-2018-15908

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files.

NVD Severity

medium

Other trackers

CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia

Mailing lists

oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq

Exploits

Exploit DB, Metasploit

Forges

GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type	URI
Third Party Advisory	https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928
Third Party Advisory	http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0d3901189f245232f0161addf215d7268c4d05a3
Third Party Advisory	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288
Third Party Advisory	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
Third Party Advisory	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
Third Party Advisory	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
Third Party Advisory	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650

Match rules

CPE URI	Source package	Min version	Max version
`cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::`	ghostscript	>= None	<= 9.23

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package	Branch	Version	Maintainer	Status