CVE-2018-15908

Publication date 27 August 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files.

Status

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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

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0d3901189f245232f0161addf215d7268c4d05a3

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3768-1
Ghostscript vulnerabilities
19 September 2018