Safer Restriction Bypass

Ghostscript is vulnerable to safer restriction bypass. The attack is possible due to a flaw of exposing .forceput in setsystemparams when hooking errors...

Safer Restriction Bypass

Ghostscript is vulnerable to safer restriction bypass. The attack is possible due to a flaw of exposing .forceput in setuserparams2 when hooking errors...

Safer Restriction Bypass

Ghostscript is vulnerable to safer restriction bypass. The attack is possible due to a flaw of exposing .forceput through .pdfhookDSCCreator when hooking errors, allowing an attacker to bypass the -dSAFER restrictions by sending a malicious PostScript file...

RHEL 7 : ghostscript (RHSA-2019:2586)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2586 advisory. The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap...

RHEL 8 : ghostscript (RHSA-2019:2591)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2591 advisory. The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap...

ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setuserparams (701444)

A flaw was found in the .setuserparams2 procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands...

ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdfexectoken and other procedures (701450)

A flaw was found in the .pdfexectoken and other procedures where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary...

ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setsystemparams (701443)

A flaw was found in the setsystemparams procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands...

ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator (701445)

A flaw was found in the .pdfhookDSCCreator procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fr...

ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setsystemparams (701443)

A flaw was found in the setsystemparams procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands...

ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setuserparams (701444)

A flaw was found in the .setuserparams2 procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fr...

ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator (701445)

A flaw was found in the .pdfhookDSCCreator procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands...

ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdfexectoken and other procedures (701450)

A flaw was found in the .pdfexectoken and other procedures where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary...

USN-4111-1 ghostscript vulnerabilities

Hiroki Matsukuma discovered that the PDF interpreter in Ghostscript did not properly restrict privileged calls when ‘-dSAFER’ restrictions were in effect. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to access...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14812

A flaw was found in all ghostscript versions 9.x before 9.50, in the .setuserparams2 procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14813

A flaw was found in ghostscript, versions 9.x before 9.50, in the setsystemparams procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the fil...

PT-2019-3236 · Artifex +5 · Ghostscript +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ghostscript versions 9.x before 9.50 Description: A flaw in the .setuserparams2 procedure of Ghostscript allows scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions by not properly securing its privileged calls. This enables a specially crafted PostScript...

ghostscript: -dSAFER escape via .buildfont1 (701394)

It was found that the .buildfont1 procedure did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. An attacker could abuse this flaw by creating a specially crafted PostScript file that could escalate privileges and access files outside of restricted areas...