The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2591 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: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator (701445) (CVE-2019-14811)

    * ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setuserparams (701444) (CVE-2019-14812)

    * ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setsystemparams (701443) (CVE-2019-14813)

    * ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdfexectoken and other procedures (701450)     (CVE-2019-14817)

    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.

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.

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RHEL 8 : ghostscript (RHSA-2019:2591)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 128450

Version 1.15

Version 1.14

Version 1.15 Nov 7, 2024, 2:42 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070242
Version 1.14 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-14813") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425