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Fedora 39 : ghostscript (2024-c45c747f02)

high Nessus Plugin ID 201987

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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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-c45c747f02 advisory.

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

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 Fix for issues in gating

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 Security fix for CVE-2024-33871

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-c45c747f02

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 201987

File Name: fedora_2024-c45c747f02.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/9/2024

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-33871

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/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: 6/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ghostscript Command Execution via Format String)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29510, CVE-2024-33870, CVE-2024-33871

FEDORA: 2024-c45c747f02

IAVB: 2024-B-0074-S