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RHEL 8 : ghostscript (RHSA-2024:2966)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 197778

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for ghostscript.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2966 advisory.

 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: Divide by zero in eps_print_page in gdevepsn.c (CVE-2020-21710)

 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.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL ghostscript package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2966.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

http://www.nessus.org/u?99ff6172

http://www.nessus.org/u?c6779327

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2235001

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2966

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 197778

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2966.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-21710

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-tools-fonts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-tools-printing, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-x11

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-21710

CWE: 369

RHSA: 2024:2966