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Virtuozzo 6 : ghostscript / ghostscript-devel / ghostscript-doc / etc (VZLSA-2017-1230)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101465

Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.

Security Fix(es) :

* 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 attempted to extract the preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA advisories. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript / ghostscript-devel / ghostscript-doc / etc package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?13f1be23

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1230

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101465

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-1230.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2017

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: p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-devel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:6, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-gtk

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2017

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

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8291