Alpine: multiple ghostscript packages: security update to 9.24-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423931

Description

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

- In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to
bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files. (CVE-2018-15908)

- In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used
by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
(CVE-2018-15909)

- In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type
confusion in the LockDistillerParams parameter to crash the interpreter or execute code. (CVE-2018-15910)

- In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use
uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute
code. (CVE-2018-15911)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423931

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 5/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15911

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15908, CVE-2018-15909, CVE-2018-15910, CVE-2018-15911

BID: 105178, 105122

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