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Fedora 40 : ghostscript (2024-f433c5c4da)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 201300

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-f433c5c4da advisory.

 Security fixes for CVE-2024-33870, CVE-2024-29510

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

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

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-f433c5c4da

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 201300

File Name: fedora_2024-f433c5c4da.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/2/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-33870

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, 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: 6/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ghostscript Command Execution via Format String)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29510, CVE-2024-33870

FEDORA: 2024-f433c5c4da

IAVB: 2024-B-0074-S