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CVE-2018-18073

Published: 15 October 2018

Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
ghostscript
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2)
cosmic
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1)
trusty
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.3
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N