CVE-2019-14813

Description (CNA)

A flaw was found in ghostscript, versions 9.x before 9.50, in the setsystemparams procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

CWE-648

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14813
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=885444fcbe10dc42787ecb76686c8ee4dd33bf33
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4518
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00007.html
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/15
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBUC4DBBJTRFNCR3IODBV4IXB2C2HI3V/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03

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