CVE-2018-17961

Name
CVE-2018-17961
Description
Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 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.
NVD Severity
high
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
Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/
Permissions Required https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816
Patch https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1682&desc=2
Exploit http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4
Patch http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6807394bd94
Patch http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5a9bf8c6a63
Patch http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a54c9e61e7d0
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336
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