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CVE-2018-18073

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Date: October 15, 2018

Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.3

Related Resources (14)

Url: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149758/Ghostscript-Exposed-System-Operators.html

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834

Url: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18073

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18073

Url: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-18073

Url: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-18073

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-18073

Severity Score

6.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Information Leak / Disclosure

CWE-200

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version ghostscript-9.26

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.3
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	CHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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