Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-31.el7_6.9
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- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed20 Nov 2018
Introduced: 20 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-19476 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-31.el7_6.9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:0229.
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.
psi/zicc.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions because of a setcolorspace type confusion.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106154
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19476
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4346
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=67d760ab775dae4efe803b5944b0439aa3c0b04a
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=434753adbe8be5534bfb9b7d91746023e8073d16
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700169
- https://semmle.com/news/semmle-discovers-severe-vulnerability-ghostscript-postscript-pdf
- https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm#Version9.26
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00036.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3831-1/
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67d760ab775dae4efe803b5944b0439aa3c0b04a
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=434753adbe8be5534bfb9b7d91746023e8073d16