Executive Summary

Summary
Title Ghostscript vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3866-1 First vendor Publication 2019-01-23
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-01-23
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:

Ghostscript could be made to crash, access files, or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - ghostscript: PostScript and PDF interpreter

Details:

Tavis Ormandy discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain PostScript files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue 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 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.4
libgs9 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.4

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
ghostscript 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
libgs9 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.4

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
ghostscript 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.4
libgs9 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.4

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
ghostscript 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
libgs9 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3866-1
CVE-2019-6116

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.10.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3866-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 8
Os 4
Os 2
Os 3
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-03-05 Ghostscript PostScript remote code execution attempt
RuleID : 49086 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2019-03-05 Ghostscript PostScript remote code execution attempt
RuleID : 49085 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OTHER

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Date Informations
2019-03-22 17:21:30
  • Multiple Updates
2019-03-21 21:21:44
  • Multiple Updates
2019-01-23 21:18:50
  • First insertion