CVE-2018-16863

Name	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
ghostscript (PTS)	bullseye	9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7	fixed
	bullseye (security)	9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u8	fixed
	bookworm	10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5	fixed
	bookworm (security)	10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6	fixed
	sid, trixie	10.04.0~dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
ghostscript	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- ghostscript <not-affected> (Red Hat-specific issue)
Debian updates backported all fixes to released suites