OS Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript (opens in a new tab)
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- published19 Aug 2020
- disclosed3 Dec 2018
Introduced: 3 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-16863 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Debian.
It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16863
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=520bb0ea7519
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=5516c614dc33
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=78911a01b67d
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=79cccf641486
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16863
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652893
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=520bb0ea7519
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486