Alpine: multiple ghostscript packages: security update to 9.25-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400643

Description

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

- Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors
involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.
(CVE-2018-17961)

- Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of
system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object. (CVE-2018-18073)

- Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors
involving the 1Policy operator. (CVE-2018-18284)

- An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26. LockSafetyParams is not checked correctly if
another device is used. (CVE-2018-19409)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400643

Version: Revision 1.23

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

Percentile: 98.24

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19409

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/29/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17961, CVE-2018-18073, CVE-2018-18284, CVE-2018-19409

BID: 105990, 107451, 107452

IAVB: 2019-B-0022-S, 2019-B-0081-S

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