Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-16863
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 25.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.3
CVSS v2 Score 9.3
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
- 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
Products affected by CVE-2018-16863
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cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.07
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.6
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:7.6
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0