cve/2019/CVE-2019-3838.md

### [CVE-2019-3838](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3838)
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### Description

It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.