CVE-2019-14811

ghostscript: The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents

CVE-2019-14811 is fixed in 11 products on 1 platform, first by ghostscript 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11, released August 27, 2019. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0375
89th percentile

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed. Security Fix(es): * ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator (701445) (CVE-2019-14811) * ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setuserparams (701444) (CVE-2019-14812) * ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setsystemparams (701443) (CVE-2019-14813) * ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdfexectoken and other procedures (701450) (CVE-2019-14817) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
ghostscript · RHEL 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 RHSA-2019:2591 Sep 2, 2019
ghostscript · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11 ghostscript 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11 Aug 27, 2019
ghostscript · ol 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 ELSA-2019-2591 Sep 6, 2019
ghostscript-doc · RHEL 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 RHSA-2019:2591 Sep 2, 2019
ghostscript-doc · ol 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 ELSA-2019-2591 Sep 6, 2019
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf · RHEL 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 RHSA-2019:2591 Sep 2, 2019
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf · ol 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 ELSA-2019-2591 Sep 6, 2019
ghostscript-tools-fonts · RHEL 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 RHSA-2019:2591 Sep 2, 2019
ghostscript-tools-fonts · ol 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 ELSA-2019-2591 Sep 6, 2019
ghostscript-tools-printing · RHEL 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 RHSA-2019:2591 Sep 2, 2019
ghostscript-tools-printing · ol 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 ELSA-2019-2591 Sep 6, 2019
ghostscript-x · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11 ghostscript-x 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11 Aug 27, 2019
ghostscript-x11 · RHEL 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 RHSA-2019:2591 Sep 2, 2019
ghostscript-x11 · ol 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 ELSA-2019-2591 Sep 6, 2019
libgs · RHEL 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 RHSA-2019:2591 Sep 2, 2019
libgs · ol 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 ELSA-2019-2591 Sep 6, 2019
libgs-devel · RHEL 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 RHSA-2019:2591 Sep 2, 2019
libgs-devel · ol 8 0:9.25-2.el8_0.3 ELSA-2019-2591 Sep 6, 2019
libgs9 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11 libgs9 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11 Aug 27, 2019
libgs9-common · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11 libgs9-common 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.11 Aug 27, 2019

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