Vulnerability CVE-2018-17183
Published: 2018-09-19

Description:
Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux desktop 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server aus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server eus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server tus 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux workstation 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 
Artifex -> Ghostscript 

 References:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=fb713b3818b52d8a6cf62c951eba2e1795ff9624
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699708
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/
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