CVE-2018-16802
HIGH 7.8EPSS 2.1%
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.
- CVSS v3.0 NVD
- 7.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 2.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 81st percentile
- Published
- 2018-09-10
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- Hetti/PoC-Exploitchain-GS-VBox-DirtyCow-2★ · 2020-01-12
Security advisories
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/228
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/229
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4294