An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 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: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856)     (CVE-2018-19478)

  - ghostscript: heap buffer over write vulnerability in GhostScript's lp8000_print_page() in gdevlp8k.c     (CVE-2020-27792)

  - An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through     10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer. (CVE-2023-46751)

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 9 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() (CVE-2023-46751)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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.

The version of ghostscript installed on the remote host is prior to 9.25-5. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2422 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through     10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer. (CVE-2023-46751)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-470 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through     10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer. (CVE-2023-46751)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4917-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through     10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer. (CVE-2023-46751)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4920-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through     10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer. (CVE-2023-46751)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5578 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through     10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer. (CVE-2023-46751)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 that allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6551-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled writing TIFF files. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198865	RHEL 8 : ghostscript (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
198817	RHEL 9 : ghostscript (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
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
189317	Amazon Linux 2 : ghostscript (ALAS-2024-2422)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
187690	Amazon Linux 2023 : ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf (ALAS2023-2024-470)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
187174	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2023:4917-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
187151	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2023:4920-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
187033	Debian DSA-5578-1 : ghostscript - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
186904	Artifex Ghostscript < 10.2.1 DoS	Nessus	Windows	high
186755	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : Ghostscript vulnerability (USN-6551-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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