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Amazon Linux 2023 : ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf (ALAS2023-2024-692)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205084

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-692 advisory.

 Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the pdfi_apply_filter() function via a long PDF filter name. (CVE-2024-29506)

 Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 sometimes has a stack-based buffer overflow via the CIDFSubstPath and CIDFSubstFont parameters. (CVE-2024-29507)

 Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based pointer disclosure (observable in a constructed BaseFont name) in the function pdf_base_font_alloc. (CVE-2024-29508)

 Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based overflow when PDFPassword (e.g., for runpdf) has a \000 byte in the middle. (CVE-2024-29509)

 Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd. (CVE-2024-29511)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'dnf update ghostscript --releasever 2023.5.20240805' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2024-692.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-29506.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-29507.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-29508.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-29509.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-29511.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 205084

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2024-692.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/6/2024

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, 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:amazon:linux:ghostscript-gtk, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgs-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-tools-printing, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-x11-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-tools-fonts, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2024

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