Alpine: multiple ghostscript packages: security update to 9.25-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400649

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)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400649

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18284

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/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: 11/12/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2018

Reference Information

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

BID: 107451, 107452

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

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