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Bug 1632471 - (CVE-2018-17183) CVE-2018-17183 ghostscript: User-writable error exception table
CVE-2018-17183 ghostscript: User-writable error exception table
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20180919,repor...
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Depends On: 1632474 1632472
Blocks: 1632473
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Reported: 2018-09-24 16:56 EDT by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2018-10-31 21:33 EDT (History)
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-24 16:56:30 EDT
Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code.

Upstream patch:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=fb713b3818b52d8a6cf62c951eba2e1795ff9624

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699708
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-24 16:56:58 EDT
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1632472]

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