CVE-2019-3839

Summary

CVECVE-2019-3839
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-05-16 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:10:00 UTC
DescriptionIt 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Artifex Ghostscript All All All All
Application Artifex Ghostscript All All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: ghostscript-9.27-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1792-1] ghostscript security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: ghostscript-9.27-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4442-1 ghostscript DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: ghostscript-9.27-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
USN-3970-1: Ghostscript vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
1673304 – (CVE-2019-3839) CVE-2019-3839 ghostscript: missing attack vector protections for CVE-2019-6116 CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
git.ghostscript.com Git - ghostpdl.git/commitdiff CONFIRM git.ghostscript.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
git.ghostscript.com Git - ghostpdl.git/commitdiff git.ghostscript.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: ghostscript-9.27-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2222-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2223-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 4442-1] ghostscript security update BUGTRAQ seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179255 Debian Security Update for ghostscript (DLA 2989-1)
  • 296080 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 13.4.0 Missing (CPUJUL2019)
  • 376881 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for ghostscript (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0027)
  • 377128 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for ghostscript (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0123)
  • 378211 Virtuozzo Linux Security Update for ghostscript-gtk (VZLSA-2019:1017)
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