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CVE-2018-17961

Published: 15 October 2018

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.6

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
ghostscript
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2)
bionic
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2)
cosmic
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1)
trusty
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a54c9e61e7d0
upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6807394bd94
upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5a9bf8c6a63

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.6
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H