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CVE-2018-18284 Detail

Description

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy operator.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Hyperlink Resource
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/16/2 Exploit  Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107451 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699963 Issue Tracking  Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 Mitigation  Third Party Advisory 
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 Third Party Advisory 

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-2018-18284
NVD Published Date:
10/19/2018
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
MITRE