Executive Summary

Summary
Title GPL Ghostscript: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201708-06 First vendor Publication 2017-08-21
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-08-21
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

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GPL Ghostscript, the worst of which can resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript.
Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for additional information.

Impact

A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PostScript file or PDF document using GPL Ghostscript possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All GPL Ghostscript users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.21"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-10219 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10219
[ 2 ] CVE-2016-10220 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-10220
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-5951 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5951
[ 4 ] CVE-2017-6196 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-6196
[ 5 ] CVE-2017-7207 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7207
[ 6 ] CVE-2017-8291 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8291

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201708-06.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
60 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
20 % CWE-416 Use After Free
20 % CWE-369 Divide By Zero

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 18
Application 5
Os 1
Os 2
Os 5
Os 2
Os 4
Os 3
Os 2

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2018-02-27 Ghostscript eqproc type confusion attempt
RuleID : 45536 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2018-02-27 Ghostscript eqproc type confusion attempt
RuleID : 45535 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2018-02-27 Ghostscript rsdparams type confusion attempt
RuleID : 45534 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER
2018-02-27 Ghostscript rsdparams type confusion attempt
RuleID : 45533 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2017-c9b0c406b3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-25 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-2180.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-22 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170802_ghostscript_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201708-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-09 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-2180.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-08 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1145.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-08 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1144.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
2017-08-02 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-2180.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-a606d224a5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-628b627eac.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-13 Name : The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.
File : Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-1230.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-09 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1101.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-09 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1100.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-07 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-837.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-25 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1404-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-23 Name : The remote Windows host contains a library that is affected by a remote comma...
File : ghostscript_9_21.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-18 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1322-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3272-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-16 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0103.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-fae1506f94.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-16 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-1230.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-15 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170512_ghostscript_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-15 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-1230.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-15 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-1230.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-09 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-558.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-c85c0e5637.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-08 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-932.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-04 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1153-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1138-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3838.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-28 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3272-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-21 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-905.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-20 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-9a13090378.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-047cffb598.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-08-22 13:24:46
  • Multiple Updates
2017-08-21 05:21:06
  • First insertion