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CentOS 9 : ghostscript-9.54.0-13.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191328

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for ghostscript.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ghostscript-9.54.0-13.el9 build changelog.

 - A buffer overflow flaw was found in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle() in ghostscript. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via outputting a crafted PDF file for a DEVN device with gs. (CVE-2023-38559)

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

Solution

Update the CentOS 9 Stream ghostscript package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=35710

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191328

File Name: centos9_ghostscript-9_54_0-13.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-gtk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-tools-fonts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-tools-printing, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libgs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libgs-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38559

IAVB: 2023-B-0070-S