Fedora 9 : ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9 (2009-3710)

high Nessus Plugin ID 36166

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes several security flaws: CVE-2009-0792 (multiple integer overflows and missing upper-bounds checks in icclib), CVE-2009-0196 (missing boundary check in jbig2dec library), and CVE-2008-6679 (buffer overflow in pdfwrite device).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491853

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493379

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493445

http://www.nessus.org/u?a82a6823

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36166

File Name: fedora_2009-3710.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-6679, CVE-2009-0196, CVE-2009-0583, CVE-2009-0792

BID: 34184, 34340, 34445

CWE: 119, 189

FEDORA: 2009-3710