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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-6897-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202378

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6897-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain long PDF filter names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29506)

 It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain API parameters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29507)

 It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain BaseFont names. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2024-29508)

 It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain PDF passwords that contained NULL bytes. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29509)

 It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain certain file paths when doing OCR. An attacker could use this issue to read arbitrary files and write error messages to arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29511)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6897-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202378

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6897-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/15/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-29509

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs9-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript-x, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs10-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29506, CVE-2024-29507, CVE-2024-29508, CVE-2024-29509, CVE-2024-29511

IAVB: 2024-B-0074-S

USN: 6897-1