CVE-2018-17183

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3773-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.html

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699708

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fb713b3818b52d8a6cf62c951eba2e1795ff9624

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3