Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0077: ghostscript (ALINUX3-SA-2025:0077)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237277

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-2025:0077 advisory.

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

CVE-2023-46751:
An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.

CVE-2024-46951:
An issue was discovered in psi/zcolor.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An unchecked Implementation pointer in Pattern color space could lead to arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2024-46952:
An issue was discovered in pdf/pdf_xref.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is a buffer overflow during handling of a PDF XRef stream (related to W array values).

CVE-2024-46953:
An issue was discovered in base/gsdevice.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An integer overflow when parsing the filename format string (for the output filename) results in path truncation, and possible path traversal and code execution.

CVE-2024-46954:
An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.

CVE-2024-46956:
An issue was discovered in psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Out-of-bounds data access in filenameforall can lead to arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2025-27832:
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.

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: High

ID: 237277

File Name: alinux3_sa_2025-0077.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/27/2025

Updated: 5/27/2025

Supported Sensors: 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: 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46751, CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46952, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46954, CVE-2024-46956, CVE-2025-27832

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