CVE-2018-16863

NameCVE-2018-16863
DescriptionIt 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ghostscript (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)9.26a~dfsg-0+deb8u13fixed
stretch (security)9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u9fixed
stretch (lts), stretch9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u13fixed
buster, buster (lts)9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u10fixed
buster (security)9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u9fixed
bullseye9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7fixed
bullseye (security)9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u9fixed
bookworm10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5fixed
bookworm (security)10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6fixed
sid, trixie10.04.0~dfsg-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ghostscriptsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- ghostscript <not-affected> (Red Hat-specific issue)
Debian updates backported all fixes to released suites

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