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GLSA-202409-03 : GPL Ghostscript: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 207561

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202409-03 (GPL Ghostscript: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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

All GPL Ghostscript users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-10.03.1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202409-03

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932125

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207561

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202409-03.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 9/22/2024

Updated: 10/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

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:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ghostscript-gpl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2023

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ghostscript Command Execution via Format String)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52722, CVE-2024-29510, CVE-2024-33869, CVE-2024-33870, CVE-2024-33871