{
  "cveId": "CVE-2018-16802",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16802",
  "summary": "CVE-2018-16802 is fixed in 4 products on 1 platform, first by ghostscript 9.22~dfsg\u002B1-0ubuntu1.2, released September 9, 2018. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.",
  "title": "ghostscript: An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25",
  "description": "An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect \u0022restoration of privilege\u0022 checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the \u0022pipe\u0022 instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.",
  "published": "2018-09-09T17:00:00Z",
  "severity": "Medium",
  "epss": 0.02086,
  "epssPercentile": 0.81656,
  "priority": "Routine",
  "priorityTier": 4,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "fixes": [
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "ghostscript",
      "release": "Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic)",
      "fixedVersion": "9.22~dfsg\u002B1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "fix": "ghostscript 9.22~dfsg\u002B1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-ghostscript-9.22-dfsg-1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "released": "2018-09-09T17:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "ghostscript-x",
      "release": "Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic)",
      "fixedVersion": "9.22~dfsg\u002B1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "fix": "ghostscript-x 9.22~dfsg\u002B1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-ghostscript-x-9.22-dfsg-1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "released": "2018-09-09T17:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "libgs9",
      "release": "Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic)",
      "fixedVersion": "9.22~dfsg\u002B1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "fix": "libgs9 9.22~dfsg\u002B1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libgs9-9.22-dfsg-1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "released": "2018-09-09T17:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "libgs9-common",
      "release": "Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic)",
      "fixedVersion": "9.22~dfsg\u002B1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "fix": "libgs9-common 9.22~dfsg\u002B1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libgs9-common-9.22-dfsg-1-0ubuntu1.2",
      "released": "2018-09-09T17:00:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "noFixYet": [],
  "dataAsOf": "2026-11-07T12:40:37Z"
}