CVE-2019-3838

Description

It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3