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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2019-11-29 | |
| Rule Name: | Ghostscript Failed Restore Command Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2018-16509) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. | |
| Impact: | An attacker can execute arbitrary command via a successful exploit in the context of the vulnerable software. | |
| Affected OS: | Windows, Others | |
| Reference: | SecurityFocusBID:105122 ExploitDB:45369 http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git a=commit |
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| Solutions |
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| The vendors have released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit: https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ |