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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-09-05T06:00:00

Updated: 2018-12-04T10:57:01

Reserved: 2018-09-04T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-16509

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-05T06:29:00.483

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:53:46.447


Link: CVE-2018-16509

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