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openSUSE Security Update : ghostscript (openSUSE-2016-427)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 90381

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

ghostscript was updated to fix one security issue and one bug.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

 - CVE-2015-3228: Specially crafted ps files could have caused an out of bound read/write due to an integer overflow, causing a segfault in the application or having unspecified further impact.

Also a non security bug was fixed :

 - fix a crash in mutex handling (bsc#963017)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939342

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=963017

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90381

File Name: openSUSE-2016-427.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/7/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-mini, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-mini-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-mini-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-mini-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-x11-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3228