Bug 1625851 (CVE-2018-16543) - CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670)
Summary: CVE-2018-16543 ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corrup...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-16543
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1625852 1625853 1653614
Blocks: 1619570
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-09-06 05:31 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:05 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: ghostscript 9.24
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It was discovered that the ghostscript gssetresolution and gsgetresolution procedures were available, although they have dangerous side effects. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and crash ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the ghostscript context via a specially crafted PostScript document.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:37:30 UTC
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Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-09-06 05:31:32 UTC
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1625852]

Comment 10 Cedric Buissart 2019-02-12 09:22:49 UTC
Statement:

CVE-2018-16543 requires the "device subclassing" feature to be present in ghostscript in order to exploit it and corrupt the interpreter's memory. This feature appeared in Ghostscript-9.18. Thus ghostscript 9.07, as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and older are not affected : although the attacker has access to the gssetresolution and gsgetresolution operators, they can not use these to corrupt memory.


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