Executive Summary
This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | ghostscript security update |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-3986 | First vendor Publication | 2017-09-29 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2017-09-29 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
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 | ||
| Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores | |||
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
| Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may result in denial of service if a specially crafted Postscript file is processed. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u6. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3986 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 71 % | CWE-125 | Out-of-bounds Read |
| 14 % | CWE-416 | Use After Free |
| 14 % | CWE-190 | Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| Application | 1 | |
| Os | 2 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2018-01-15 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates. File : fedora_2017-c9b0c406b3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-10-02 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-3986.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-08-29 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-3403-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-08-02 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update. File : debian_DLA-1048.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2017-10-04 13:25:04 |
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| 2017-09-30 00:22:20 |
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