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HistorySep 10, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-4288-1 : ghostscript - security update

2018-09-1000:00:00
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CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.01

Percentile

83.6%

Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple vulnerabilites in Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language, which could result in denial of service, the creation of files or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Postscript file is processed (despite the dSAFER sandbox being enabled).

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4288. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(117369);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/08/08");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2018-15908",
    "CVE-2018-15910",
    "CVE-2018-15911",
    "CVE-2018-16511",
    "CVE-2018-16513",
    "CVE-2018-16539",
    "CVE-2018-16540",
    "CVE-2018-16541",
    "CVE-2018-16542",
    "CVE-2018-16543",
    "CVE-2018-16585"
  );
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4288");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4288-1 : ghostscript - security update");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Tavis Ormandy discovered multiple vulnerabilites in Ghostscript, an
interpreter for the PostScript language, which could result in denial
of service, the creation of files or the execution of arbitrary code
if a malformed Postscript file is processed (despite the dSAFER
sandbox being enabled).");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ghostscript");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/ghostscript");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4288");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the ghostscript packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-16585");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/09/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/09/10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"ghostscript", reference:"9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"ghostscript-dbg", reference:"9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"ghostscript-doc", reference:"9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"ghostscript-x", reference:"9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libgs-dev", reference:"9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libgs9", reference:"9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libgs9-common", reference:"9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u4")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.01

Percentile

83.6%