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Artifex Ghostscript < 10.04.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 210946

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Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains a library that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Artifex Ghostscript versions prior to 10.04.0. See vendor advisory for more details.

- An issue was discovered in pdf/pdf_xref.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is a buffer overflow during handling of a PDF XRef stream (related to W array values). (CVE-2024-46952)

 - An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal. (CVE-2024-46954)

 - An issue was discovered in psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Out-of-bounds data access in filenameforall can lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2024-46956)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Artifex Ghostscript 10.04.0 or later.

See Also

https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/gs10.04.0/News.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210946

File Name: ghostscript_10_4_0.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 11/14/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

Supported Sensors: 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:/a:artifex:gpl_ghostscript, cpe:/a:artifex:ghostscript

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Ghostscript

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46952, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46954, CVE-2024-46955, CVE-2024-46956

IAVB: 2024-B-0170