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CVE-2018-16509
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-05T06:29:00.483 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:44:24.233

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.

Affected products

debian — debian_linux

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References

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