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FreeBSD : ghostscript -- insecure temporary file creation vulnerability (27a70a01-5f6c-11da-8d54-000cf18bbe54)

high Nessus Plugin ID 21404

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Ghostscript is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is likely due to a design error that causes the application to fail to verify the existence of a file before writing to it.

An attacker may leverage this issue to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of an unsuspecting user that activates the vulnerable application. Reportedly this issue is unlikely to facilitate privilege escalation.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8de63367

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 21404

File Name: freebsd_pkg_27a70a015f6c11da8d54000cf18bbe54.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ghostscript-afpl, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ghostscript-afpl-nox11, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ghostscript-gnu, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ghostscript-gnu-nox11, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0967

BID: 11285