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CVE-2018-16863
high
Description
It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16863
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79cccf641486
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=78911a01b67d
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5516c614dc33
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=520bb0ea7519