ALPINE-CVE-2018-16802

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CVE-2018-16802
Published: 10 Sept 2018, 16:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:42

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

10 Sept 2018, 16:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:42
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•ghostscript

    < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0 | < 9.25-r0

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