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CVE-2018-16509 Detail

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33662a2afdc377159f70218e67bde5
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d590b4a91afac2e8417360b934156
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486a6595c43f1de1cd7ade696020a31
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=520bb0ea7519aa3e79db78aaf0589dae02103764
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/142 Exploit  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105122 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2918 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3760 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699654 Issue Tracking  Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ Vendor Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4294 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45369/ Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-16509
NVD Published Date:
09/05/2018
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
MITRE