Debian DSA-3326-1 : ghostscript - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85165

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Synopsis

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

Description

William Robinet and Stefan Cornelius discovered an integer overflow in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service or potentially execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted file is opened.

Solution

Upgrade the ghostscript packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85165

File Name: debian_DSA-3326.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/3/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3228

DSA: 3326

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