CVE-2018-16802
N/A
Published: September 10, 2018 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:44 AM UTC
9 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxEnterprise Linux Desktop
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v < 9.25
Affected range stops below 9.25, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%95%
Enterprise Linux Server· Red Hatrubygems
95%95%
95%
95%
95%
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (10)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/228x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/229Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo
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