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CVE-2018-16802

Disclosure Date: September 10, 2018 •
CVE-2018-16802
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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.

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Vendors

  • artifex,
  • canonical,
  • debian,
  • redhat

Products

  • debian linux 8.0,
  • debian linux 9.0,
  • enterprise linux desktop 7.0,
  • enterprise linux server 7.0,
  • enterprise linux server aus 7.6,
  • enterprise linux server eus 7.6,
  • enterprise linux server tus 7.6,
  • enterprise linux workstation 7.0,
  • ghostscript,
  • ubuntu linux 14.04,
  • ubuntu linux 16.04,
  • ubuntu linux 18.04
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