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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2024:3942-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210577

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3942-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-46951: Fixed arbitrary code execution via unchecked 'Implementation' pointer in 'Pattern' color space (bsc#1232265).
 - CVE-2024-46953: Fixed integer overflow when parsing the page format results in path truncation, path traversal, code execution (bsc#1232267).
 - CVE-2024-46956: Fixed arbitrary code execution via out of bounds data access in filenameforall (bsc#1232270).
 - CVE-2024-46955: Fixed out of bounds read when reading color in 'Indexed' color space (bsc#1232269).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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, ghostscript-devel and / or ghostscript-x11 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232265

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232267

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232269

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232270

http://www.nessus.org/u?d4fb35c5

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46951

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46953

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46955

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46956

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210577

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3942-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2024

Updated: 12/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-46956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46955, CVE-2024-46956

IAVB: 2024-B-0170

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3942-1