Bug 1642584 (CVE-2018-18073) - CVE-2018-18073 ghostscript: Saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays
Summary: CVE-2018-18073 ghostscript: Saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-18073
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1642585 1642586 1645516 1645517
Blocks: 1632473
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-10-24 17:54 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:52 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ghostscript 9.26
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Last Closed: 2018-12-18 08:54:28 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3834 0 None None None 2018-12-17 19:58:24 UTC

Description Laura Pardo 2018-10-24 17:54:57 UTC 
Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object. 

References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12 
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690

Upstream Patch:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-10-24 17:55:36 UTC 
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1642585]
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-12-17 19:58:23 UTC 
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
Comment 8 Cedric Buissart 2018-12-18 08:54:30 UTC 
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/.
Comment 9 Cedric Buissart 2018-12-18 08:54:32 UTC 
Mitigation:

Please refer to the "Mitigation" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509
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