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    CVE-2019-3838

    It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. 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.

    Published:Mar 21, 2019
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Mar 25, 2019
    EPSS Score:0.01413
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Artifex
    Product
    Ghostscript
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Leap
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Ansible Tower
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Desktop
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Aus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Tus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Workstation

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-107 Cross Site Tracing
    CAPEC-234 Hijacking a privileged process

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2025-59800 (CVSS 4.3) — In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1, ocr_begin_page in devices/gdevpdfocr.c has an integer overflow that le…
    CVE-2025-59799 (CVSS 4.3) — Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdfmark_coerce_dest in devices/vector…
    CVE-2025-59798 (CVSS 4.3) — Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdev…
    CVE-2025-48708 (CVSS 4) — gs_lib_ctx_stash_sanitized_arg in base/gslibctx.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.1 lacks argument sanitiz…
    CVE-2025-46646 (CVSS 4.5) — In Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0, decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c mishandles overlong UTF-8 encoding. NOTE:…
    CVE-2025-27832 (CVSS 9.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overfl…
    CVE-2025-27834 (CVSS 7.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. A buffer overflow occurs via an oversized Type …
    CVE-2025-27836 (CVSS 9.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The BJ10V device has a Print buffer overflow in…
    CVE-2025-27830 (CVSS 7.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. A buffer overflow occurs during serialization o…
    CVE-2025-27833 (CVSS 7.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. A buffer overflow occurs for a long TTF font na…

    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03
    https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.html
    http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28
    https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03
    https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High