Security restrictions bypass in Ghostscript and GhostXPS - CVE-2018-19475

 

Security restrictions bypass in Ghostscript and GhostXPS - CVE-2018-19475

Published: November 27, 2018 / Updated: November 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16071
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19475
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to the psi/zdevice2.c source code file fails to check available stack space. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into accessing a PostScript file that submits malicious input to bypass the security access restrictions on the targeted system, which could be used to conduct further attacks.


Affected software

Ghostscript
GhostXPS
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Opensuse
Fedora
ghostscript (Alpine package)
ghostscript
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance

How to mitigate CVE-2018-19475

Update to version 9.26.

Ghostscript - update to 9.26
ghostscript (Alpine package) - update to 9.26-r0
ghostscript - addressed in versions 9.26-1.fc28, 9.26-1.fc29
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance - update to 12.1.0.65

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