Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
This is a rebase of **ghostscript** package, to address several security issues :
- [CVE-2016-7977 ](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380415) -
*.libfile does not honor -dSAFER*
- [CVE-2013-5653](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi ?id=1380327) - *getenv and filenameforall ignore
-dSAFER*
- [CVE-2016-7976](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi ?id=1382294) - *various userparams allow %pipe% in paths, allowing remote shell*
- [CVE-2016-7978](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi ?id=1382300) - *reference leak in .setdevice allows use-after-free and remote code*
- [CVE-2016-7979](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi ?id=1382305) - *Type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser allows remote code execution*
----------- #### INFORMATION FOR FEDORA PACKAGERS & MAINTAINERS :
**ghostscript** has been rebased to latest upstream version (9.20).
Rebase notes :
- **no API/ABI changes between versions 9.16 -> 9.20 according to upstream**
- *OpenJPEG* support has been retained
- *ijs-config* custom tool from upstream has been
*removed* (by upstream) (*pkg-config* is used by default now instead, see [commit 0c176a9](http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=0c 176a91d53c85cda))
- some patches were updated to 'git format-patch' format & renamed
- rest of the patches were deleted (irrelevant for current version), mostly because upstream has fixed those issues in some way
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected ghostscript package.
Plugin Details
File Name: fedora_2016-2df27a2224.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2016
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2017