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MiracleLinux 4 : ghostscript-8.70-24.AXS4.2 (AXSA:2018-3430:01)

high Nessus Plugin ID 290046

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2018-3430:01 advisory.

 * It was discovered that the ghostscript /invalidaccess checks fail under certain conditions. An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. (CVE-2018-16509) Asianux would like to thank Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero) for reporting this issue.
 CVE-2018-16509 An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect restoration of privilege checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the pipe instruction.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/9877

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 290046

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2018-3430.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16509

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ghostscript, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16509