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Virtuozzo 7 : ghostscript / ghostscript-cups / ghostscript-devel / etc (VZLSA-2019-0633)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123683

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Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for ghostscript is now available for 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) :

* ghostscript: superexec operator is available (700585) (CVE-2019-3835)

* ghostscript: forceput in DefineResource is still accessible (700576) (CVE-2019-3838)

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

Bug Fix(es) :

* ghostscript: Regression: double comment chars '%%' in gs_init.ps leading to missing metadata (BZ#1673915)

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-cups / ghostscript-devel / etc package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?bb10cbe8

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0633

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123683

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2019-0633.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 4/3/2019

Updated: 6/6/2024

Supported Sensors: 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:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-devel, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-cups, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:ghostscript-gtk

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3835, CVE-2019-3838