CVE-2018-18073
Moderate
CVE-2018-18073
Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.
Exploit probability
2.7%
Published
October 15, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-18073
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Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149758/Ghostscript-Exposed-System-Operators.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336