Bug 1642940 – CVE-2018-18284 ghostscript: 1Policy operator allows a sandbox protection bypass

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Bug 1642940 - (CVE-2018-18284) CVE-2018-18284 ghostscript: 1Policy operator allows a sandbox protection bypass

Summary:	CVE-2018-18284 ghostscript: 1Policy operator allows a sandbox protection bypass

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-18284

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1642941 1642943 1643115 1643117
Blocks:	1642944
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Reported:	2018-10-25 06:49 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-11-01 06:43 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-10-25 06:49:34 EDT

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy operator.

References:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/16/2
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696
git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2018-10-25 06:51:04 EDT

Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1642943]

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