Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ghostscript-9.54.0-7.el9 build changelog.

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0088-3 advisory.

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from     sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the ghostscript package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from     sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the ghostscript packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Artifex Ghostscript through 9.26 mishandles .completefont. NOTE: this issue exists because of an     incomplete fix for CVE-2019-3839. (CVE-2019-25059)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from     sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the ghostscript packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from     sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0088-2 advisory.

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from     sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2879 advisory.

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from     sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0088-1 advisory.

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from     sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0088-1 advisory.

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from     sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0081-1 advisory.

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.53.3 has a use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (called from     sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45944)

  - Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called     from sampled_data_continue and interp). (CVE-2021-45949)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5224-2 advisory.

    USN-5224-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Ghostscript. This update provides the corresponding update for     Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5224-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain PostScript files. If a user or automated     system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 / 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5038 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which could     result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed document files     are processed. For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version     9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u5. For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version     9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2. We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages. For the detailed security     status of ghostscript please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-     tracker.debian.org/tracker/ghostscript

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
229824	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-45949	Nessus	Misc.	medium
191218	CentOS 9 : ghostscript-9.54.0-7.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
170922	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2022:0088-3)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
169683	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.6 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2023-1088)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
165869	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-2499)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
161570	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1723)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
160689	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.0 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1693)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
160119	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1533)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
160044	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1503)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
160011	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1484)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
159793	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1447)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
159777	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2022-1426)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
158063	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2022:0088-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
156789	Debian DLA-2879-1 : ghostscript - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
156780	openSUSE 15 Security Update : ghostscript (openSUSE-SU-2022:0088-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
156775	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2022:0088-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
156758	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2022:0081-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
156743	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-5224-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
156645	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-5224-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
156563	Debian DSA-5038-1 : ghostscript - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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