Medium
Security advisory
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.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-3838
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2019-3838
Complete source record
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/",
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"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652",
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"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html",
"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28",
"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432",
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