High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 16, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-3839
CVE-2019-3839
Description
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.
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Affected products
29<9.27+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <9.27
- (no CPE)range: 9.28
- osv-coords27 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript-mini&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript-mini&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%204pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%205pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208
< 9.27-lp150.2.23.1+ 26 more
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-lp150.2.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-lp151.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-lp150.2.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-lp151.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.27-23.28.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
12- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971nvdThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442nvdThird Party Advisory
- git.ghostscript.comnvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/nvd
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