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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1364)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124742

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the ghostscript package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.(CVE-2019-3838)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. 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

http://www.nessus.org/u?6525baaf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124742

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1364.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 5/10/2019

Updated: 5/24/2024

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: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.3, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ghostscript

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3838