{"id":"USN-4111-1","summary":"ghostscript vulnerabilities","details":"Hiroki Matsukuma discovered that the PDF interpreter in Ghostscript\ndid not properly restrict privileged calls when ‘-dSAFER’\nrestrictions were in effect. If a user or automated system were\ntricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker\ncould possibly use this issue to access arbitrary files.\n(CVE-2019-14811, CVE-2019-14812, CVE-2019-14813, CVE-2019-14817)\n","modified":"2026-04-22T10:00:28.715653Z","published":"2019-08-29T01:31:45Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14811","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14812","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14813","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14817"],"upstream":["CVE-2019-14811","CVE-2019-14812","CVE-2019-14813","CVE-2019-14817","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14811","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14812","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14813","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14817"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4111-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14811"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14812"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14813"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14817"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"ghostscript","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.11?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.11"}]}],"versions":["9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu3","9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu4","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu1","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.3","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.6","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.8","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9","9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1","9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2","9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.4","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.5","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.6","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.7","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.8","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.9","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.10"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No 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