Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs Affecting ghostscript-doc package, versions <0:9.25-2.el8_0.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GHOSTSCRIPTDOC-3460233
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Aug 2019

Introduced: 28 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-14817  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-648  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 ghostscript-doc to version 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2591.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-doc package and not the ghostscript-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in, ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, in the .pdfexectoken and other procedures where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands.

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