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Amazon Linux AMI : ghostscript (ALAS-2023-1734)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 175089

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of ghostscript installed on the remote host is prior to 8.70-24.28. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1734 advisory.

 - In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an escaped character, two bytes are written. (CVE-2023-28879)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update ghostscript' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1734.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-28879.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 175089

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1734.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2023

Updated: 9/27/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28879

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28879

IAVB: 2023-B-0023-S