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CVE-2018-16802
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-10T16:29:00.950 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:44:50.467

Summary

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.

Affected products

artifex — ghostscript

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References

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