Debian DSA-1510-1 : ghostscript - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31303

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the color space handling code of the Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter, which might result in the execution of arbitrary code if a user is tricked into processing a malformed file.

Solution

Upgrade the gs-esp and gs-gpl packages.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 8.54.dfsg.1-5etch1 of gs-gpl and 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1etch1 of gs-esp.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 8.01-6 of gs-gpl and 7.07.1-9sarge1 of gs-esp.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31303

File Name: debian_DSA-1510.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/28/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gs-esp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gs-gpl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2008

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0411

CWE: 119

DSA: 1510

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