CVE-2018-17961

Publication date 15 October 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a54c9e61e7d0 Upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6807394bd94 Upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5a9bf8c6a63

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.6 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2018-17961

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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