In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use incorrect access checking in temp file handling to disclose contents of files on the system otherwise not readable. 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=699658 Upstream Patch: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=a054156d
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1625840]
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 Moderate, 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/.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:3650 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3650
Mitigation: Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509