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openSUSE Security Update : ghostscript (openSUSE-2016-1330)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 94953

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues :

 - bsc#1006592: Fix a regression introduced in CVE-2013-5653 by which ps files couldn't be opened in okular/evince (kde#371887).

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=1006592

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 94953

File Name: openSUSE-2016-1330.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2016

Updated: 1/16/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-5653

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/17/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5653