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Fedora 42 : ghostscript (2025-db5caba0cc)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 241304

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-db5caba0cc advisory.

 10.05.1, security fix for CVE-2025-46646 (fedora#2362935, fedora#2362446, fedora#2362640)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 ghostscript package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-db5caba0cc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 241304

File Name: fedora_2025-db5caba0cc.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2025

Updated: 7/3/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46646

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46646

FEDORA: 2025-db5caba0cc

IAVB: 2025-B-0043