PT-2018-1914 · Artifex+5 · Artifex Ghostscript+5

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2018-10-09 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-18073

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Artifex Ghostscript (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the bypass of a sandbox protection mechanism in Artifex Ghostscript. This is due to the exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object, which can be leveraged by attackers. The vulnerability is also described as being related to a lack of protection for service data, allowing a local attacker to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism and potentially disclose protected information.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2799

BDU:2018-01518

CESA-2018_3834

CVE-2018-18073

DLA-1552-1

DSA-4336-1

MGASA-2018-0408

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4138-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4140-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1

RHSA-2018:3834

RHSA-2018_3834

SUSE-SU-2018:4087-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4090-2

USN-3803-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Artifex Ghostscript

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 95

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3803-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:4087-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18073 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:4090-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18073 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0408.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18073 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:4090-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12 · Patch
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-01518 · Security Note
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690 · Patch