| Name | CVE-2019-3839 |
| Description | It 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1792-1, DSA-4442-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | jessie | 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u7 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb8u6 | fixed | |
| stretch | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u4 | fixed | |
| stretch (security) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u6 | fixed | |
| buster | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u2 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u3 | fixed | |
| bullseye, sid | 9.50~dfsg-5 | 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) | 9.27~dfsg-1 | |||
| ghostscript | source | jessie | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb8u3 | DLA-1792-1 | ||
| ghostscript | source | stretch | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u3 | DSA-4442-1 |
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9
To prevent pdf2dsc regression additionally:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=db24f253409d5d085c2760c814c3e1d3fa2dac59