Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0141: ghostscript (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0141)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 236281

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2023:0141 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2023-28879:
In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an escaped character, two bytes are written.

CVE-2023-38559:
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-2023-4042:
A flaw was found in ghostscript. The fix for CVE-2020-16305 in ghostscript was not included in RHSA-2021:1852-06 advisory as it was claimed to be. This issue only affects the ghostscript package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

CVE-2023-43115:
In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2, gdevijs.c in GhostPDL can lead to remote code execution via crafted PostScript documents because they can switch to the IJS device, or change the IjsServer parameter, after SAFER has been activated. NOTE: it is a documented risk that the IJS server can be specified on a gs command line (the IJS device inherently must execute a command to start the IJS server).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 236281

File Name: alinux3_sa_2023-0141.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43115

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28879

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-x11-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libgs-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-tools-printing, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-gtk, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-tools-fonts, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libgs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libgs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28879, CVE-2023-38559, CVE-2023-4042, CVE-2023-43115

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