CVE-2019-3839

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    CVE-2019-3839

    Published: 16 May 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.html, https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/, https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -799cf865a224b60a7de50d2909abf7f66e9e34e3

    Affected versions

    gs926

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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