Bug 1625846 (CVE-2018-16541)
Summary: | CVE-2018-16541 ghostscript: Incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement (699664) | ||
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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, zdohnal |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | ghostscript 9.24 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
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It was discovered that the ghostscript device cleanup did not properly handle devices replaced with a null 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.
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Story Points: | --- |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2018-12-18 09:14:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1625847, 1625848, 1654621, 1654622 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1619570 |
Description
Sam Fowler
2018-09-06 05:27:22 UTC
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1625847] Acknowledgments: Name: Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero) Statement: This issue affects the versions of ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. 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/. 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/. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:3834 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 |