The mark_line_tr function in gxscanc.c in Artifex Ghostscript 9.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted PostScript document.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ghostscript: /invalidaccess bypass after failed restore (699654) (CVE-2018-16509)

  - ghostscript: Improperly implemented security check in zsetdevice function in psi/zdevice.c     (CVE-2018-19409)

  - The getenv and filenameforall functions in Ghostscript 9.10 ignore the -dSAFER argument, which allows     remote attackers to read data via a crafted postscript file. (CVE-2013-5653)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ghostscript: Improperly implemented security check in zsetdevice function in psi/zdevice.c     (CVE-2018-19409)

  - Integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function in base/gsmalloc.c in Ghostscript 9.15 and earlier     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Postscript (ps) file, as     demonstrated by using the ps2pdf command, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write. (CVE-2015-3228)

  - The pdf14_open function in base/gdevp14.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted file that is     mishandled in the color management module. (CVE-2016-10217)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ghostscript: use-after-free in xps_finish_image_path() in devices/vector/gdevxps.c could result in a     privilege escalation (CVE-2020-16303)

  - Integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function in base/gsmalloc.c in Ghostscript 9.15 and earlier     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Postscript (ps) file, as     demonstrated by using the ps2pdf command, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write. (CVE-2015-3228)

  - The pdf14_open function in base/gdevp14.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted file that is     mishandled in the color management module. (CVE-2016-10217)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

Latest release of `Ghostscript` (version `9.22`) fixes several
*low-impact* security issues, as it provides regular quality improvements & fixes as well.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198835	RHEL 5 : ghostscript (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
198822	RHEL 6 : ghostscript (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
198813	RHEL 7 : ghostscript (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196594	RHEL 5 : ghostscript (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196587	RHEL 7 : ghostscript (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196514	RHEL 6 : ghostscript (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
105974	Fedora 27 : ghostscript / poppler-data (2017-c9b0c406b3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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