RockyLinux 9 : ghostscript (RLSA-2024:6197)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235517

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:6197 advisory.

* ghostscript: format string injection leads to shell command execution (SAFER bypass) (CVE-2024-29510)

* ghostscript: path traversal and command execution due to path reduction (CVE-2024-33869)

* ghostscript: path traversal to arbitrary files if the current directory is in the permitted paths (CVE-2024-33870)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235517

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-6197.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/7/2025

Updated: 5/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-33870

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libgs-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ghostscript-tools-fonts, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ghostscript-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ghostscript-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libgs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libgs-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ghostscript-tools-printing, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ghostscript-x11-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29510, CVE-2024-33869, CVE-2024-33870

Detections

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