high7.8
CVE-2019-3839
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix.
Impact
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. 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. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Artifex | Ghostscript | before 9.27 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 8.0, 9.0 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Versions 15.0, 15.1 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | Versions 29, 30 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Versions 5.0, 6.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442