Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201816802000
Revision Date:2018-09-10Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-16802 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-16802
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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