CVE-2018-16539

Publication date 5 September 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use incorrect access checking in temp file handling to disclose contents of files on the system otherwise not readable.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ghostscript 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13

Notes

mdeslaur

second commit fixes regression

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ghostscript

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3768-1
    • Ghostscript vulnerabilities
    • 19 September 2018

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