Incomplete Blacklist Affecting ghostscript-devel package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.3
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- published10 Apr 2022
- disclosed3 Dec 2018
Introduced: 3 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-16863 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Oracle:7 ghostscript-devel to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2018-3761.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-devel package and not the ghostscript-devel package as distributed by Oracle.
See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2018-16863.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-3761.html
- 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://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
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863