CVE-2018-16509
Published: 5 September 2018
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 7.8
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
ghostscript Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Released
(9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2)
|
| precise |
Does not exist
|
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
(trusty was released [9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13])
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
| xenial |
Released
(9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9)
|