CVE-2018-17183 — Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception in Ghostscript

CWE-460 — Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception12 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 26.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
9
Artifex GhostscriptCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+6 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 19
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶Debianartifex/ghostscript< 9.25~dfsg-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 7.6

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-w54c-254g-phcp: Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-17183: Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2018-09-19
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CVEList
CVE-2018-17183: Artifex Ghostscript before 9↗2018-09-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Red Hat
ghostscript: Saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays (incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183)↗2018-10-10
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Ubuntu
Ghostscript vulnerabilities↗2018-10-01
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Red Hat
ghostscript: User-writable error exception table↗2018-09-19
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Debian
CVE-2018-17183: ghostscript - Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, w...↗2018
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💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17961 ghostscript: saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays (incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183) [fedora-all]↗2018-10-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17961 ghostscript: Saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays (incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183)↗2018-10-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17183 ghostscript: User-writable error exception table [fedora-all]↗2018-09-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17183 ghostscript: User-writable error exception table↗2018-09-24
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