RHEL 7 : ghostscript (RHSA-2018:3650)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119168

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for ghostscript.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3650 advisory.

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):

* ghostscript: .tempfile file permission issues (699657) (CVE-2018-15908)

* ghostscript: shading_param incomplete type checking (699660) (CVE-2018-15909)

* ghostscript: missing type check in type checker (699659) (CVE-2018-16511)

* ghostscript: incorrect access checking in temp file handling to disclose contents of files (699658) (CVE-2018-16539)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero) for reporting CVE-2018-15908.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL ghostscript package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:3650.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119168

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3650.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/27/2018

Updated: 4/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16511

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-gtk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-cups, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15908, CVE-2018-15909, CVE-2018-16511, CVE-2018-16539

CWE: 377, 704, 843

RHSA: 2018:3650

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