Fedora 39 : ghostscript (2023-b240ebd9aa)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185329

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-b240ebd9aa advisory.

Automatic update for ghostscript-10.01.2-1.fc39.

##### **Changelog**

```
* Fri Jul 14 2023 Michael J Gruber <[email protected]> - 10.01.2-1
- rebase to bugfix release 10.01.2 (rhbz#2182090)
- fix for CVE-2023-36664 (rhbz#2217806)

```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 185329

File Name: fedora_2023-b240ebd9aa.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36664

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36664

FEDORA: 2023-b240ebd9aa

IAVB: 2023-B-0041-S

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