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Alpine: multiple ghostscript packages: security update to 9.25-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423949

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2018-16802)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-16802

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423949

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16802

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16802