It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-8654 It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:32:54.123Z

Reserved: 2018-09-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-16863

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-12-03T17:29:00.373

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:53:28.450

Link: CVE-2018-16863

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-12-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16863 - Bugzilla

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