Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.6
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.48% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-2131906
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 19 Sep 2018
Introduced: 19 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-17183 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.6 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.
Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17183
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=fb713b3818b52d8a6cf62c951eba2e1795ff9624
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699708
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fb713b3818b52d8a6cf62c951eba2e1795ff9624