The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2023:7053 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)

  - A buffer overflow flaw was found in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle() in ghostscript. This     issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via outputting a crafted PDF file for a DEVN     device with gs. (CVE-2023-38559)

  - A flaw was found in ghostscript. The fix for CVE-2020-16305 in ghostscript was not included in     RHSA-2021:1852-06 advisory as it was claimed to be. This issue only affects the ghostscript package as     shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. (CVE-2023-4042)

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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CentOS 8 : ghostscript (CESA-2023:7053)

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