CVE-2018-16802 Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-2530903
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed10 Sept 2018

Introduced: 10 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16802  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2018-3834.

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 Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.