Artifex Ghostscript < 10.2.1 DoS

high Nessus Plugin ID 186904

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Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains a library that is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 that allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Artifex Ghostscript 10.2.1 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186904

File Name: ghostscript_10_2_1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 12/14/2023

Updated: 12/15/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46751

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:artifex:ghostscript, cpe:/a:artifex:gpl_ghostscript

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Ghostscript

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46751

IAVB: 2023-B-0097

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