| Name | CVE-2018-17183 |
| Description | Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1527-1, DSA-4294-1 |
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.
Notes
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699708
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=fb713b3818b52d8a6cf62c951eba2e1795ff9624