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GHSA-xr7x-hc9m-fv57
GHSA-xr7x-hc9m-fv57
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26. LockSafetyParams is not checked correctly if another device is used.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
- May 13, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (4 in total, the first dated here)
- May 1, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19409 advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700176 url
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=661e8d8fb8248c38d67958beda32f3a5876d0c3f url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105990 url
- https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm#Version9.26 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834 advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00036.html advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4346 advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3831-1 advisory