Alpine: multiple ghostscript packages: security update to 9.27-r2 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400451

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- A flaw was found in, ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, in the .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator procedure where it
did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. A
specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file
system, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2019-14811)

- A flaw was found in all ghostscript versions 9.x before 9.50, in the .setuserparams2 procedure where it
did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. A
specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file
system, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2019-14812)

- A flaw was found in ghostscript, versions 9.x before 9.50, in the setsystemparams procedure where it did
not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. A specially
crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or
execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2019-14813)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400451

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.38

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14813

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14811, CVE-2019-14812, CVE-2019-14813

IAVB: 2019-B-0081-S

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