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Amazon Linux 2 : ghostscript (ALAS-2024-2469)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 190707

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of ghostscript installed on the remote host is prior to 9.25-5. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2469 advisory.

 - Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature). (CVE-2020-36773)

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

Solution

Run 'yum update ghostscript' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2469.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-36773.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 190707

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2469.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2024

Updated: 2/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36773

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:amazon:linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-cups, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-gtk, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgs-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36773

IAVB: 2023-B-0097