High severity7.3NVD Advisory· Published Dec 3, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-16863
CVE-2018-16863
Description
It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Affected products
10cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: = 9.07
- (no CPE)range: 9.07
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: = 7
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References
6- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3761nvdThird Party Advisory
- git.ghostscript.comnvd
- git.ghostscript.comnvd
- git.ghostscript.comnvd
- git.ghostscript.comnvd
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