cve/2019/CVE-2019-3838.md

CVE-2019-3838

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

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.