CVE-2018-16802HIGH
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Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.
References
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=3e5d316b72e3965b7968bb1d96baa137cd063ac6
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=643b24dbd002fb9c131313253c307cf3951b3d47
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=5812b1b78fc4d36fdc293b7859de69241140d590
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/228
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/229
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2018-09-10
Updated: 2019-10-03
Type: NVD-CWE-noinfo
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Impact Score: 6.4
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 1.8
Severity: HIGH
Vulnerable Software
Configuration 1
OR
Configuration 2
OR
Configuration 3
OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
Configuration 4
OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Tenable Plugins
| ID | Name | Product | Family | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127227 | NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : ghostscript Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0046) | Nessus | NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks | high |
| 124887 | EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1384) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | critical |
| 123895 | EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.4 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1209) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | high |
| 123891 | EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1205) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | high |
| 123326 | openSUSE Security Update : ghostscript (openSUSE-2019-759) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 122376 | EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1049) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | high |
| 122169 | EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1022) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | high |
| 121276 | EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.1 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1016) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | high |
| 120992 | EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1004) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | critical |
| 120767 | Fedora 28 : ghostscript (2018-c39ae23dc8) | Nessus | Fedora Local Security Checks | high |
| 120572 | Fedora 29 : ghostscript (2018-81ee973d7c) | Nessus | Fedora Local Security Checks | high |
| 120116 | SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2018:2976-1) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 119901 | EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.2 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2018-1412) | Nessus | Huawei Local Security Checks | high |
| 119883 | Scientific Linux Security Update : ghostscript on SL7.x x86_64 (20181217) | Nessus | Scientific Linux Local Security Checks | critical |
| 119757 | Oracle Linux 7 : ghostscript (ELSA-2018-3834) | Nessus | Oracle Linux Local Security Checks | critical |
| 119754 | CentOS 7 : ghostscript (CESA-2018:3834) | Nessus | CentOS Local Security Checks | critical |
| 119736 | RHEL 7 : ghostscript (RHSA-2018:3834) | Nessus | Red Hat Local Security Checks | critical |
| 119132 | GLSA-201811-12 : GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities | Nessus | Gentoo Local Security Checks | high |
| 118298 | SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2018:2975-2) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 118043 | Amazon Linux 2 : ghostscript (ALAS-2018-1088) | Nessus | Amazon Linux Local Security Checks | high |
| 117980 | openSUSE Security Update : ghostscript (openSUSE-2018-1123) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 117979 | openSUSE Security Update : ghostscript (openSUSE-2018-1122) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 117901 | SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1) | Nessus | SuSE Local Security Checks | high |
| 117596 | Artifex Ghostscript < 9.25 PostScript Code Execution Vulnerability | Nessus | Windows | high |
| 117595 | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-3768-1) | Nessus | Ubuntu Local Security Checks | high |
| 117504 | Debian DSA-4294-1 : ghostscript - security update | Nessus | Debian Local Security Checks | high |
| 117487 | Debian DLA-1504-1 : ghostscript security update | Nessus | Debian Local Security Checks | high |