Bug 1625843 (CVE-2018-16540)

Summary:	CVE-2018-16540 ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	twaugh, yozone, zdohnal
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	ghostscript 9.24	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	It was discovered that the ghostscript PDF14 compositor did not properly handle the copying of a device. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and crash ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the ghostscript context via a specially crafted PostScript document.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-02-01 14:05:30 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1625844, 1625845, 1657333, 1657334
Bug Blocks:	1619570

Description Sam Fowler 2018-09-06 05:24:37 UTC

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to the builtin PDF14 converter could use a use-after-free in copydevice handling to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.


External Reference:

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928
https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/


Upstream Bug:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699661


Upstream Patch:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=c432131c

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-09-06 05:25:17 UTC

Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1625844]

Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2018-09-27 08:30:54 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Important, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Comment 6 Cedric Buissart 2018-12-18 12:02:44 UTC

Mitigation:

Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-01-31 18:19:35 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:0229 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229