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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1177)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123863

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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the ghostscript package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - An integer overflow flaw was discovered in one of Ghostscript's memory allocation routines. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to cause a crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into processing a specially crafted file.i1/4^CVE-2015-3228i1/4%0

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?acd17f0b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123863

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1177.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Published: 4/9/2019

Updated: 1/28/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ghostscript, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2019

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ghostscript Failed Restore Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3228

BID: 76017