Information Exposure Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.25-r1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-GHOSTSCRIPT-7009091
  • published23 May 2024
  • disclosed15 Oct 2018

Introduced: 15 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (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 allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.

CVSS Scores

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