Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.15% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-4838515
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Sept 2018

Introduced: 19 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17183  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-460  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code.