CVE-2019-3838 Affecting ghostscript package, versions [,9.27)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370743
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-3838  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 9.27 or higher.

Overview

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.

CVSS Scores

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