High
Security advisory
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. 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. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-3839
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. 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. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.
osv:CVE-2019-3839
Complete source record
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"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.html",
"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2019-05-16T19:29:05.427+00:00"
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