FreeBSD : ghostscript -- buffer overflow vulnerability (f0f97b94-3f95-11de-a3fd-0030843d3802)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38763

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

SecurityFocus reports :

Ghostscript is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it into a finite-sized buffer.

Exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to overwrite a sensitive memory buffer with arbitrary data, potentially allowing them to execute malicious machine code in the context of the affected application. This vulnerability may facilitate the compromise of affected computers.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38763

File Name: freebsd_pkg_f0f97b943f9511dea3fd0030843d3802.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ghostscript8, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ghostscript8-nox11, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-6679

BID: 34340

CWE: 119

Detections

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