CVE-2018-17961 (GCVE-0-2018-17961)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-15 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
11 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=co… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=co… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=co… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573/ | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB |
| https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/d… | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2018-10-09 00:00
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