Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published26 Jan 2022
- disclosed3 Dec 2018
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 3 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-16863 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs. 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.
Note:
This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.