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CVE-2018-16802

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.971

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-16802,CVE-2018-17183,CVE-2018-17961 are affected in Ghostscript 9.24Windows
ghostscript security update(DSA-4294-1) ghostscript_9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5_i386.debLinux
ghostscript security update(DSA-4294-1) ghostscript_9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5_amd64.debLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2018:3834) ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.6.i686.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2018:3834) ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.6.x86_64.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2018:3834) ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.6.noarch.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2018:3834) ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.6.x86_64.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2018:3834) ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.6.x86_64.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2018:3834) ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.6.i686.rpmLinux
Ghostscript security update (CESA-2018:3834) ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.6.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3834) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.6.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3834) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.6.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3834) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-cups-9.07-31.el7_6.6.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3834) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.6.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3834) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-devel-9.07-31.el7_6.6.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3834) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-doc-9.07-31.el7_6.6.noarch.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2018:3834) ghostscript security and bug fix update ghostscript-gtk-9.07-31.el7_6.6.x86_64.rpmLinux
ghostscript Security Update (ALAS-2018-1088) ghostscript-devel-9.06-8.amzn2.0.5.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234