An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26. LockSafetyParams is not checked correctly if another device is used. Upstream bug: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700176 Upstream patch: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=661e8d8fb https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=ea1b3ef43 References: https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm#Version9.26
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1652584]
Upstream patches : https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=661e8d8fb https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=ea1b3ef43
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
Mitigation: Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509
Statement: 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/.