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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-09-10T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:32:53.992Z

Reserved: 2018-09-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-16802

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-10T16:29:00.950

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:53:22.593

Link: CVE-2018-16802

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-09-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16802 - Bugzilla