Medium
Security advisory
psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.21rc1 permits the status command even if -dSAFER is used, which might allow remote attackers to determine the existence and size of arbitrary files, a similar issue to CVE-2016-7977.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11645
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.21rc1 permits the status command even if -dSAFER is used, which might allow remote attackers to determine the existence and size of arbitrary files, a similar issue to CVE-2016-7977.
osv:CVE-2018-11645
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11645",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2018-11645",
"summary": "psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.21rc1 permits the status command even if -dSAFER is used, which might allow remote attackers to determine the existence and size of arbitrary files, a similar issue to CVE-2016-7977.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:58.669021057Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2281",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336",
"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697193"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439128,
"published_at": "2018-06-01T12:29:00.223+00:00"
}