CentOS 7 : ghostscript (CESA-2019:2586)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 129019

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

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: 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.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 129019

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-2586.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 9/19/2019

Updated: 7/8/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14813

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-gtk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libgs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libgs-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ghostscript-cups

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14811, CVE-2019-14812, CVE-2019-14813, CVE-2019-14817

IAVB: 2019-B-0081-S

RHSA: 2019:2586

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