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
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-8005765
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed9 Oct 2018

Introduced: 9 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18073  (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 allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.

CVSS Scores

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