Bug 1625843 (CVE-2018-16540) - CVE-2018-16540 ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661)
Summary: CVE-2018-16540 ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-16540
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1625844 1625845 1657333 1657334
Blocks: 1619570
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-09-06 05:24 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2021-12-10 17:21 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ghostscript 9.24
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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.
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Last Closed: 2019-02-01 14:05:30 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:0229 0 None None None 2019-01-31 18:19:36 UTC

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
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