Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL
PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary
code or denial of service if a specially crafted Postscript file is
processed.
# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_3838.nasl 6607 2017-07-07 12:04:25Z cfischer $
# Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3838-1 using nvtgen 1.0
# Script version: 1.0
#
# Author:
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if(description)
{
script_id(703838);
script_version("$Revision: 6607 $");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10219", "CVE-2016-10220", "CVE-2017-5951", "CVE-2017-7207", "CVE-2017-8291");
script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 3838-1 (ghostscript - security update)");
script_tag(name: "last_modification", value: "$Date: 2017-07-07 14:04:25 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
script_tag(name: "creation_date", value: "2017-04-28 00:00:00 +0200 (Fri, 28 Apr 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name: "solution_type", value: "VendorFix");
script_tag(name: "qod_type", value: "package");
script_xref(name: "URL", value: "http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
script_tag(name: "affected", value: "ghostscript on Debian Linux");
script_tag(name: "insight", value: "GPL Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing.
Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display
PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.");
script_tag(name: "solution", value: "For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 9.20~dfsg-3.1 or earlier versions.
We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.");
script_tag(name: "summary", value: "Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL
PostScript/PDF interpreter, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary
code or denial of service if a specially crafted Postscript file is
processed.");
script_tag(name: "vuldetect", value: "This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ghostscript", ver:"9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ghostscript-dbg", ver:"9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ghostscript-doc", ver:"9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ghostscript-x", ver:"9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libgs-dev", ver:"9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libgs9", ver:"9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libgs9-common", ver:"9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u5", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if (report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}