CVE-2018-16509

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.

Affected products

Alt Linux, Artifex Ghostscript, Centos, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu

Debian Debian Linux

= 8.0, 9.0

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

9.3 HIGH

CVSS 3.1

7.8 HIGH

EPSS

92.5% (100th percentile)

NVD status

Modified

Published

2018-09-05