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Fedora 12 : ghostscript-8.71-7.fc12 (2010-11376)

high Nessus Plugin ID 48358

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes memory corruption when a PostScript stack overflow occurs (CVE-2010-1628).

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=592492

http://www.nessus.org/u?29cbfd8f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48358

File Name: fedora_2010-11376.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1628

BID: 40107

FEDORA: 2010-11376