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Virtuozzo 7 : ghostscript / ghostscript-cups / ghostscript-doc / etc (VZLSA-2019-3888)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144019

Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

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: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841) (CVE-2019-14869)

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

Note that Tenable Network Security has attempted to extract the preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA advisories. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript / ghostscript-cups / ghostscript-doc / etc package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?152c6ab1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3888

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144019

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2019-3888.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 12/10/2020

Updated: 2/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

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-2019-14869

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-cups, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-gtk, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:libgs, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:libgs-devel, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14869