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CVE-2019-3835

Description

It was found that the superexec operator was available in the internal dictionary in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
1.643

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in Ghostscript 9.26Windows
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) libgs9_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.8_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) libgs9_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.8_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) libgs9_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.8_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) libgs9_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.8_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) libgs9_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.8_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) libgs9_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.8_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) libgs9_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.8_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) libgs9_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.8_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) ghostscript_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.8_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) ghostscript_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.8_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) ghostscript_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.8_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) ghostscript_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.8_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) ghostscript_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.8_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) ghostscript_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.8_amd64.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) ghostscript_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.8_i386.debLinux
PostScript and PDF interpreter (USN-3915-1) ghostscript_9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.8_amd64.debLinux
ghostscript security update(DSA-4432-1) ghostscript_9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u2_i386.debLinux
ghostscript security update(DSA-4432-1) ghostscript_9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u2_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) ghostscript-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) ghostscript-debuginfo-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) ghostscript-debugsource-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) ghostscript-x11-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0971) ghostscript security update ghostscript-9.25-2.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0971) ghostscript security update ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-2.el8_0.1.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0971) ghostscript security update ghostscript-debugsource-9.25-2.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0971) ghostscript security update libgs-9.25-2.el8_0.1.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:0971) ghostscript security update libgs-9.25-2.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5) ghostscript-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64_12_SP5.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5) ghostscript-debuginfo-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64_12_SP5.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5) ghostscript-debugsource-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64_12_SP5.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5) ghostscript-x11-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64_12_SP5.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5) ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.27-23.28.1.x86_64_12_SP5.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