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HistorySep 05, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2018-16509

2018-09-0500:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
17

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%

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect
“restoration of privilege” checking during handling of /invalidaccess
exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to
execute code using the “pipe” instruction.

Bugs

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchghostscript< 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchghostscript< 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchghostscript< 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9UNKNOWN

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%