| Name | CVE-2018-18073 |
| Description | Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1552-1, DSA-4336-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 910758 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb8u12 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u9 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u12 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u8 | fixed |
| bookworm | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.04.0~dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12