Ubuntu 4.10 : GhostScript utility script vulnerabilities (USN-3-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20645

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the gs-common package. The utilities 'pv.sh' and 'ps2epsi' created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected gs-common package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20645

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gs-common

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0967

USN: 3-1

Detections

Analytics