CVE-2019-3838 Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GHOSTSCRIPT-341089
  • published22 Mar 2019
  • disclosed25 Mar 2019

Introduced: 22 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-3838  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 ghostscript to version 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.8 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 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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CVSS Scores

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