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Description
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. 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. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.
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CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc.11/06/2023 10:10:13 PM
Action
Type
Old Value
New Value
Added
Reference
Red Hat, Inc. http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9 [No types assigned]
Added
Reference
Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/ [No types assigned]
Added
Reference
Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/ [No types assigned]
Removed
Reference
Red Hat, Inc. http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9
Removed
Reference
Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/
Removed
Reference
Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/
Modified Analysis by NIST10/15/2020 10:31:52 AM
Action
Type
Old Value
New Value
Added
CPE Configuration
OR
*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Added
CPE Configuration
OR
*cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
*cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Added
CPE Configuration
OR
*cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
*cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Added
CPE Configuration
OR
*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Changed
CPE Configuration
OR
*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
OR
*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Removed
CVSS V3
NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Added
CVSS V3.1
NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Added
CWE
NIST NVD-CWE-noinfo
Removed
CWE
NIST CWE-264
Changed
Reference Type
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html No Types Assigned
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Changed
Reference Type
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html No Types Assigned
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Changed
Reference Type
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971 No Types Assigned
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971 Third Party Advisory
Changed
Reference Type
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017 No Types Assigned
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017 Third Party Advisory
Changed
Reference Type
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/ No Types Assigned
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Changed
Reference Type
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/ No Types Assigned
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Changed
Reference Type
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23 No Types Assigned
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Changed
Reference Type
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/ No Types Assigned
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/ Third Party Advisory
Changed
Reference Type
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442 No Types Assigned
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442 Third Party Advisory
CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc.10/09/2019 7:49:46 PM
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. 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. Ghostscript versions before 9.28 are vulnerable.
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. 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. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.
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