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Debian DSA-4372-1 : ghostscript - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 121400

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Postscript file is processed (despite the -dSAFER sandbox being enabled).

Solution

Upgrade the ghostscript packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ghostscript

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/ghostscript

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4372

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121400

File Name: debian_DSA-4372.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/28/2019

Updated: 4/2/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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 v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6116

DSA: 4372