CVE-2018-16863

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    CVE-2018-16863

    Published: 3 Dec 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

    References: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=520bb0ea7519, http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33, http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d, http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486, , https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863

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    Introduced- None
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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