CVE-2019-3838 (NVD)

2019-03-25

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.

Products Ghostscript, Debian_linux, Fedora, Leap, Ansible_tower, Enterprise_linux, Enterprise_linux_desktop, Enterprise_linux_server, Enterprise_linux_server_aus, Enterprise_linux_server_eus, Enterprise_linux_server_tus, Enterprise_linux_workstation
Type ? (NVD-CWE-Other)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links • https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3838
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00018.html
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971