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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2017-1101)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100694

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the ghostscript packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - It was found that ghostscript did not properly validate the parameters passed to the .rsdparams and .eqproc functions. During its execution, a specially crafted PostScript document could execute code in the context of the ghostscript process, bypassing the -dSAFER protection. (CVE-2017-8291)

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

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?810b63a9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100694

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1101.nasl

Version: 3.18

Type: local

Published: 6/9/2017

Updated: 5/25/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-8291

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ghostscript-cups, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ghostscript

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2017

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8291