openSUSE Security Update : ghostscript (openSUSE-2019-1121)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123668

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issue :

Security issue fixed :

- CVE-2019-3838: Fixed a vulnerability which made forceput operator in DefineResource to be still accessible which could allow access to file system outside of the constraints of -dSAFER (bsc#1129186).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129186

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123668

File Name: openSUSE-2019-1121.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/3/2019

Updated: 6/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3838

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-mini-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-mini-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-mini, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-mini-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-x11-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3838