The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7103-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PS files. An attacker could use     this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46955, CVE-2024-46956)

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PDF files. 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, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2024-46952)

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PS files. An attacker could use     this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly bypass file path     validation. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2024-46954)

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.

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-7103-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210776

Version 1.4