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OS Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-GHOSTSCRIPT-614276
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed3 Dec 2018
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Introduced: 3 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-16863  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu.

It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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