CVE-2018-16863 (GCVE-0-2018-16863)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-03 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:32
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Summary
It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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Artifex ghostscript Affected: 9.07
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2018-12-03 00:00
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