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CentOS 7 : ghostscript (CESA-2019:0229)

high Nessus Plugin ID 122061

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.

Security Fix(es) :

* ghostscript: use-after-free in copydevice handling (699661) (CVE-2018-16540)

* ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zdevice2.c (700153) (CVE-2018-19475)

* ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zicc.c (700169) (CVE-2018-19476)

* ghostscript: access bypass in psi/zfjbig2.c (700168) (CVE-2018-19477)

* ghostscript: subroutines within pseudo-operators must themselves be pseudo-operators (700317) (CVE-2019-6116)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero) for reporting CVE-2019-6116.

Bug Fix(es) :

* Previously, ghostscript-9.07-31.el7_6.1 introduced a regression during the standard input reading, causing a '/invalidfileaccess in
--run--' error. With this update, the regression has been fixed and the described error no longer occurs. (BZ#1665919)

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?437d1158

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 122061

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-0229.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2019

Updated: 12/31/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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 Score Source: CVE-2018-16540

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:centos:centos:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-cups, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-gtk, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16540, CVE-2018-19475, CVE-2018-19476, CVE-2018-19477, CVE-2019-6116

RHSA: 2019:0229