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CVE-2019-3838

Published: Mar 25, 2019

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.3

HIGH

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

The ghostscript Project

ghostscript

affected
9.27

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-648

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

Low

References

RHSA-2019:0652
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
FEDORA-2019-d5d9cfd359
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2019-1a2c059afd
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
openSUSE-SU-2019:1119
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2019:1121
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
FEDORA-2019-9f28451404
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
DSA-4432
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
RHSA-2019:0971
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
GLSA-202004-03
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO

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