Vulnerability: Incomplete Fix for CVE-2018-16509 in Ghostscript 9.07

CVE-2018-16863 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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