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Ubuntu 13.04 : ghostscript vulnerability (USN-1911-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69173

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

USN-1911-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Little CMS. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ghostscript.

It was discovered that Little CMS did not properly verify certain memory allocations. If a user or automated system using Little CMS were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause Little CMS to crash.

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

Solution

Update the affected libgs9 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1911-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69173

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1911-2.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/1/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4160

USN: 1911-2