SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2024:2292-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 201872

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2292-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-29510: Fixed an arbitrary path traversal when running in a permitted path (bsc#1226945).
- CVE-2024-33870: Fixed a format string injection that could lead to command execution (bsc#1226944).
- CVE-2024-33869: Fixed a path validation bypass that could lead to path traversal (bsc#1226946).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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, ghostscript-devel and / or ghostscript-x11 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 201872

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2292-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/4/2024

Updated: 7/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29510, CVE-2024-33869, CVE-2024-33870

IAVB: 2024-B-0074

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2292-1

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