SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2024:0920-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 192497

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0920-1 advisory.

- Fixed segfaults in gs_heap_free_object() ref:_00D1igLOd._500Tr4BRgx:ref (bsc#1219357).

Previously fixed security issue:

- CVE-2020-36773: Fixed out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) (bsc#1219554).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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 affected ghostscript, ghostscript-devel and / or ghostscript-x11 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 192497

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0920-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/23/2024

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

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:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36773

IAVB: 2023-B-0097-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0920-1

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