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Alpine: multiple ghostscript packages: security update to 9.25-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423952

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors
 involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.
 (CVE-2018-17961)

 - 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. (CVE-2018-18073)

 - Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors
 involving the 1Policy operator. (CVE-2018-18284)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-17961

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-18073

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-18284

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423952

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.24

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18284

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17961, CVE-2018-18073, CVE-2018-18284

BID: 107451, 107452

IAVB: 2019-B-0022-S, 2019-B-0081-S