Subject: [ASA-201911-5] ghostscript: sandbox escape

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201911-5
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Severity: High
Date    : 2019-11-03
CVE-ID  : CVE-2019-14811 CVE-2019-14812 CVE-2019-14813 CVE-2019-14817
Package : ghostscript
Type    : sandbox escape
Remote  : No
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1031

Summary
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The package ghostscript before version 9.50-1 is vulnerable to sandbox
escape.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 9.50-1.

# pacman -Syu "ghostscript>=9.50-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 9.50.

Workaround
==========

None.

Description
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- CVE-2019-14811 (sandbox escape)

Safer Mode Bypass by .forceput Exposure in .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator.

- CVE-2019-14812 (sandbox escape)

Safer Mode Bypass by .forceput Exposure in setuserparams

- CVE-2019-14813 (sandbox escape)

Safer Mode Bypass by .forceput Exposure in setsystemparams

- CVE-2019-14817 (sandbox escape)

Safer Mode Bypass by .forceput Exposure in .pdfexectoken and other
procedures.

Impact
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An attacker is able to escape the sandbox provided by ghostscript.

References
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https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=156699539604858
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=885444fcbe10dc42787ecb76686c8ee4dd33bf33
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd1b1cacadac2479e291efe611979bdc1b3bdb19
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-14811
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-14812
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-14813
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-14817