Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201816509000
Revision Date:2018-09-05Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-16509 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-16509
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'ghostscript' package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9').
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