UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16802

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16802

    Published: 10 Sept 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-16802
    Aliases:
    USN-3768-1

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16802, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/142, https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3768-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16802

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ghostscript

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13

    Affected versions

    9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu2

    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