SUSE SLES11 Security Update : ghostscript-library (SUSE-SU-2016:2493-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94007

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for ghostscript-library fixes the following issues :

- Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered where ghostscript's '-dsafer' flag did not provide sufficient protection against unintended access to the file system. Thus, a machine that would process a specially crafted Postscript file would potentially leak sensitive information to an attacker. (CVE-2013-5653, CVE-2016-7977, bsc#1001951)

- Insufficient validation of the type of input in .initialize_dsc_parser used to allow remote code execution. (CVE-2016-7979, bsc#1001951)

- An integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function used to allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via specially crafted Postscript files.
(CVE-2015-3228, boo#939342)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5:zypper in -t patch sleclo50sp3-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1:zypper in -t patch slemap21-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Manager 2.1:zypper in -t patch sleman21-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp2-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-ghostscript-library-12781=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2:zypper in -t patch dbgsp2-ghostscript-library-12781=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94007

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2493-1.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/12/2016

Updated: 1/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7979

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-fonts-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-fonts-std, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgimpprint, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-omni, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-fonts-rus, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-library

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5653, CVE-2015-3228, CVE-2016-7977, CVE-2016-7979

BID: 76017

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