ArchLinux: 201811-3: ghostscript: sandbox escape
Summary
- CVE-2018-17961 (sandbox escape)
Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a
sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup.
- CVE-2018-18073 (sandbox escape)
Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection
mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved
execution stack in an error object.
- CVE-2018-18284 (sandbox escape)
Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a
sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy
operator.
Resolution
Upgrade to 9.25-4.
# pacman -Syu "ghostscript>=9.25-4"
The problems have been fixed upstream but no release is available yet.
References
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a54c9e61e7d02bbc620bcba9b1c208462a876afb https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5a9bf8c6a63aa4ac6874234fe8cd63e72077291 https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6807394bd94b708be24758287b606154daaaed9 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/09/4 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1682&desc=2 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45573 https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149758/Ghostscript-Exposed-System-Operators.html https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12 https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/16/2 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699963 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-17961 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-18073 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-18284
Workaround
None.