CVE catalog

CVE-2018-16863

ghostscript: CVE-2018-16863

Severity: High · CVSS 7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Published: Dec 3, 2018, 12:00:00 AM UTC
Source: [NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS: 1.25% · Oct 25, 2026

It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

Distribution	Package	Release	Version	Status
Debian	ghostscript	sid	`10.08.0~dfsg-2`	not affected
Debian	ghostscript	forky	`10.08.0~dfsg-2`	not affected
Debian	ghostscript	trixie	`10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1`	not affected
Debian	ghostscript	trixie-security	`10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u3`	not affected
Debian	ghostscript	bookworm	`10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8`	not affected
Debian	ghostscript	bookworm-security	`10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8`	not affected

Fixed-version evidence

Distribution	Package	Type	Release	Fixed version	Urgency	Origin	Bugs
Debian	ghostscript	source	sid	`Not affected`	unimportant	Not reported	Not reported
Debian	ghostscript	source	forky	`Not affected`	unimportant	Not reported	Not reported
Debian	ghostscript	source	trixie	`Not affected`	unimportant	Not reported	Not reported
Debian	ghostscript	source	bookworm	`Not affected`	unimportant	Not reported	Not reported

OpenFactory catalog packages

Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

[ghostscript]Unknown
Details (4)
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · amd64 · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · arm64 · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · amd64 · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · arm64 · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
[ghostscript-doc]Unknown
Source package: [ghostscript]
Details (4)
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
[ghostscript-x]Unknown
Source package: [ghostscript]
Details (4)
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · amd64 · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · arm64 · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · amd64 · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · arm64 · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
[libgs10]Unknown
Source package: [ghostscript]
Details (4)
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · amd64 · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · arm64 · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · amd64 · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · arm64 · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
[libgs10-common]Unknown
Source package: [ghostscript]
Details (4)
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
[libgs9-common]Unknown
Source package: [ghostscript]
Details (4)
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
[libgs-common]Unknown
Source package: [ghostscript]
Details (4)
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · all · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
[libgs-dev]Unknown
Source package: [ghostscript]
Details (4)
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · amd64 · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · arm64 · bookworm
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · amd64 · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm
- 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8 · arm64 · bookworm-security
  Not affected
  dsa · ghostscript · debian · bookworm

Observed: Oct 23, 2026, 5:35:11 PM UTC

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX] · [SUSE security advisories and VEX]