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CVE-2018-17183

Description

Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code.

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
0.771

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-16802,CVE-2018-17183,CVE-2018-17961 are affected in Ghostscript 9.24Windows
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) libgs9_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) libgs9_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) libgs9_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) libgs9_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) libgs9_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) libgs9_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) ghostscript_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) ghostscript_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) ghostscript_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) ghostscript_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) ghostscript_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3773-1) ghostscript_9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_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
SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ghostscript-9.26-23.16.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ghostscript-debuginfo-9.26-23.16.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ghostscript-debugsource-9.26-23.16.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ghostscript-x11-9.26-23.16.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.26-23.16.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libspectre-debugsource-0.2.7-12.4.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libspectre1-0.2.7-12.4.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libspectre1-debuginfo-0.2.7-12.4.1.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