CVE-2018-17961

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.0

Description

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-45573 local linux verified

Google Security Research · 2018-10-09

ghostscript - executeonly Bypass with errorhandler Setup

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`9.25-4`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`9.25~dfsg-3`
sid	Fixed	`9.25~dfsg-3`
forky	Fixed	`9.25~dfsg-3`
bullseye	Fixed	`9.25~dfsg-3`
bookworm	Fixed	`9.25~dfsg-3`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.