PT-2018-13618 · Artifex+5 · Ghostscript+5

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2018-09-05 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-16539

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Artifex Ghostscript versions prior to 9.24

Description The issue allows attackers to disclose contents of files on the system that are otherwise not readable by supplying crafted PostScript files, due to incorrect access checking in temp file handling.

Recommendations For versions prior to 9.24, update to version 9.24 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2344

CESA-2018_3650

CVE-2018-16539

DLA-1504-1

DSA-4288-1

MGASA-2018-0378

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3036-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3038-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1

RHSA-2018:3650

RHSA-2018_3650

SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2975-2

SUSE-SU-2018:2975-3

SUSE-SU-2018:2976-1

USN-3768-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Ghostscript

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 112

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15910 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699658 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2976-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11645 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16539 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16509 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16511 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16539 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0378 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15908 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16539 · Security Note