Fedora 23 : ghostscript (2016-1c13825502)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94119

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a rebase of **ghostscript** package, to address several security issues :

- [CVE-2016-7977 ](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380415) -
*.libfile does not honor -dSAFER*

- [CVE-2013-5653](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi ?id=1380327) - *getenv and filenameforall ignore
-dSAFER*

- [CVE-2016-7976](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi ?id=1382294) - *various userparams allow %pipe% in paths, allowing remote shell*

- [CVE-2016-7978](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi ?id=1382300) - *reference leak in .setdevice allows use-after-free and remote code*

- [CVE-2016-7979](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi ?id=1382305) - *Type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser allows remote code execution*

----------- #### INFORMATION FOR FEDORA PACKAGERS & MAINTAINERS :

**ghostscript** has been rebased to latest upstream version (9.20).
Rebase notes :

- **no API/ABI changes between versions 9.16 -> 9.20 according to upstream**

- *OpenJPEG* support has been retained

- *ijs-config* custom tool from upstream has been
*removed* (by upstream) (*pkg-config* is used by default now instead, see [commit 0c176a9](http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=0c 176a91d53c85cda))

- some patches were updated to 'git format-patch' format & renamed

- rest of the patches were deleted (irrelevant for current version), mostly because upstream has fixed those issues in some way

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

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94119

File Name: fedora_2016-1c13825502.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/19/2016

Updated: 1/21/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (ImageMagick Delegate Arbitrary Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5653, CVE-2016-7976, CVE-2016-7977, CVE-2016-7978, CVE-2016-7979

FEDORA: 2016-1c13825502

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