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Fedora 28 : ghostscript (2018-56221eb24b)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120437

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a rebase to latest upstream version of `Ghostscript`, which fixes several high important CVEs recently discovered. It is advised to update this version as soon as possible.

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.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-56221eb24b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120437

File Name: fedora_2018-56221eb24b.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16543

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15909, CVE-2018-15911, CVE-2018-16510, CVE-2018-16539, CVE-2018-16540, CVE-2018-16541, CVE-2018-16542, CVE-2018-16543