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Oracle Linux 8 : ghostscript (ELSA-2025-4362)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235035

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-4362 advisory.

 - RHEL-18396 CVE-2023-46751 ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable()
 - RHEL-67046 CVE-2024-46951 ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color Space
 - RHEL-15067 CVE-2020-27792 ghostscript: heap buffer over write vulnerability in GhostScript's lp8000_print_page() in gdevlp8k.c
 - RHEL-67051 CVE-2024-46954 ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding
 - RHEL-67051 CVE-2024-46953 ghostscript: Path Traversal and Code Execution via Integer Overflow in Ghostscript

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-4362.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235035

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-4362.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2025

Updated: 4/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-46956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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:oracle:linux:ghostscript-tools-printing, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libgs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript-tools-fonts, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript-x11, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libgs, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27792, CVE-2023-46751, CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46952, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46954, CVE-2024-46956

IAVB: 2022-B-0034-S, 2023-B-0097-S, 2024-B-0170-S