Information Exposure Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.25-r1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-GHOSTSCRIPT-7009088
  • published23 May 2024
  • disclosed15 Oct 2018

Introduced: 15 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17961  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-209  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 ghostscript to version 9.25-r1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.