CVE-2018-16802

Name
CVE-2018-16802
Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.
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
Mailing List https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/229
Third Party Advisory http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=643b24dbd002fb9c131313253c307cf3951b3d47
Third Party Advisory http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=3e5d316b72e3965b7968bb1d96baa137cd063ac6
Mailing List https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/228
Patch https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=5812b1b78fc4d36fdc293b7859de69241140d590
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4294
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-2018:3834

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ghostscript >= None < 9.25

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status