CVE-2018-18284 Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.25~dfsg-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GHOSTSCRIPT-529058
  • published17 Oct 2018
  • disclosed19 Oct 2018

Introduced: 17 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 ghostscript to version 9.25~dfsg-3 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy operator.