9.3 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.973 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.9%
Issue Overview:
It was discovered that the ghostscript /invalidaccess checks fail under certain conditions. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document.(CVE-2018-16509)
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686
ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686
src:
ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64
ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64
Red Hat: CVE-2018-16509
Mitre: CVE-2018-16509
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | ghostscript-doc | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | ghostscript | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | ghostscript-debuginfo | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | i686 | ghostscript-devel | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.26.amzn1.i686.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | ghostscript-debuginfo | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-debuginfo-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | ghostscript-doc | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-doc-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | ghostscript | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
Amazon Linux | 1 | x86_64 | ghostscript-devel | < 8.70-24.26.amzn1 | ghostscript-devel-8.70-24.26.amzn1.x86_64.rpm |
9.3 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.973 High
EPSS
Percentile
99.9%