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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2019:2478-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 129404

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for ghostscript to 9.27 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-3835: Fixed an unauthorized file system access caused by an available superexec operator. (bsc#1129180)

CVE-2019-3839: Fixed an unauthorized file system access caused by available privileged operators. (bsc#1134156)

CVE-2019-12973: Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability in the OpenJPEG function opj_t1_encode_cblks. (bsc#1140359)

CVE-2019-14811: Fixed a safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator. (bsc#1146882)

CVE-2019-14812: Fixed a safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setuserparams. (bsc#1146882)

CVE-2019-14813: Fixed a safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in setsystemparams. (bsc#1146882)

CVE-2019-14817: Fixed a safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdfexectoken and other procedures. (bsc#1146884)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2019-2478=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2019-2478=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP5-2019-2478=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-2478=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2019-2478=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-4-2019-2478=1

HPE Helion Openstack 8:zypper in -t patch HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2019-2478=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129180

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131863

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1134156

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140359

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146882

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146884

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12973/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14811/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14812/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14813/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14817/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3835/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3839/

http://www.nessus.org/u?da31be5e

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 129404

File Name: suse_SU-2019-2478-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/27/2019

Updated: 1/26/2022

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-x11-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12973, CVE-2019-14811, CVE-2019-14812, CVE-2019-14813, CVE-2019-14817, CVE-2019-3835, CVE-2019-3839

IAVB: 2019-B-0081-S