Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.6
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EPSS
0.23% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-2132802
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 9 Oct 2018
Introduced: 9 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-18073 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 allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18073
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149758/Ghostscript-Exposed-System-Operators.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c
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