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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
The ghostscript Project ghostscript
9.27affected
References
- 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-2019:0652 ↗
- 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/ ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00011.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.html ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4 ↗
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/ ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432 ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03 ↗