CVE-2018-16509 Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-29.el7_5.2
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
97.27% (100th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-2106133
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 21 Aug 2018
Introduced: 21 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-16509 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-29.el7_5.2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-cups package and not the ghostscript-cups package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105122
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=520bb0ea7519aa3e79db78aaf0589dae02103764
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16509
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4294
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45369/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=5516c614dc33662a2afdc377159f70218e67bde5
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=78911a01b67d590b4a91afac2e8417360b934156
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=79cccf641486a6595c43f1de1cd7ade696020a31
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699654
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/142
- https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33662a2afdc377159f70218e67bde5
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d590b4a91afac2e8417360b934156
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486a6595c43f1de1cd7ade696020a31
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=520bb0ea7519aa3e79db78aaf0589dae02103764
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45369