Executive Summary

Summary
Title Ghostscript vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3803-1 First vendor Publication 2018-10-30
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-10-30
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript.

Software Description: - ghostscript: PostScript and PDF interpreter

Details:

Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple security issues in Ghostscript. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use these issues to access arbitrary files, execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10:
ghostscript 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1
libgs9 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
ghostscript 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
libgs9 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
ghostscript 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
libgs9 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
ghostscript 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
libgs9 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3803-1
CVE-2018-17961, CVE-2018-18073, CVE-2018-18284

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3803-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-209 Information Exposure Through an Error Message
50 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Application 17
Application 5
Os 5
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-08 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2019-1004.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-28 Name : The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1412.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-19 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2018-3834.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201811-12.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-13 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4336.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-23 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1552.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2019-03-11 21:22:06
  • Multiple Updates
2018-12-06 17:21:07
  • Multiple Updates
2018-12-04 21:21:49
  • Multiple Updates
2018-10-30 21:19:19
  • First insertion