CVE-2018-16509 (GCVE-0-2018-16509)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-05 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
15 references
Date Public
2018-09-05 00:00
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