CVE-2019-3838 Affecting ghostscript-devel package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.10


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-GHOSTSCRIPTDEVEL-2531401
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed25 Mar 2019

Introduced: 25 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-3838  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 ghostscript-devel to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.10 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2019-0633.

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 the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

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