A vulnerability was found in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26. A type confusion in setcolorspace in psi/zicc.c allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. References: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700169 https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm#Version9.26 Upstream Patches: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=67d760ab775dae4efe803b5944b0439aa3c0b04a http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=548bb434e81dadcc9f71adf891a3ef5bea8e2b4e
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1654465]
Mitigation: Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509
Note: Adding additional patch, from https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700169#c1, to protect other type confusions : Upstream Patches: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=67d760ab775dae4efe803b5944b0439aa3c0b04a http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=548bb434e81dadcc9f71adf891a3ef5bea8e2b4e
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/.
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