Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:2018168630000000
Revision Date:2018-12-03Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-16863 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-16863
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • NOT ghostscript package in bionic, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
  • OR NOT ghostscript-x package in bionic, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
  • OR NOT libgs9 package in bionic, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
  • OR NOT libgs9-common package in bionic, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected.
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