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Oracle Linux 10 : ghostscript (ELSA-2025-7499)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240971

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-7499 advisory.

 - RHEL-88964 CVE-2025-27832 ghostscript: NPDL device: Compression buffer overflow
 - RHEL-67044 CVE-2024-46951 ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color Space
 - RHEL-67050 CVE-2024-46952 ghostscript: Buffer Overflow in Ghostscript PDF XRef Stream Handling
 - RHEL-67050 CVE-2024-46954 ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding
 - RHEL-67050 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-2025-7499.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240971

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-7499.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/30/2025

Updated: 6/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:/o:oracle:linux:10, 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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libgs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46952, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46954, CVE-2024-46956

IAVB: 2024-B-0170-S