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Debian DLA-3381-1 : ghostscript - LTS security update

2023-04-0400:00:00
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0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

70.7%

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3381 advisory.

  • In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an escaped character, two bytes are written. (CVE-2023-28879)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
#
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory dla-3381. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(173849);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/09/28");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-28879");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0023-S");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-3381-1 : ghostscript - LTS security update");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3381
advisory.

  - In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential corruption of data
    internal to the PostScript interpreter, in base/sbcp.c. This affects BCPEncode, BCPDecode, TBCPEncode, and
    TBCPDecode. If the write buffer is filled to one byte less than full, and one then tries to write an
    escaped character, two bytes are written. (CVE-2023-28879)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3381");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-28879");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/ghostscript");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the ghostscript packages.

For Debian 10 Buster, this problem has been fixed in version 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u7.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-28879");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/03/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/04/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/04/04");

  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:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript-dbg");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript-x");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgs-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgs9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgs9-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 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('debian_package.inc');

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

var debian_release = get_kb_item('Host/Debian/release');
if ( isnull(debian_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian');
debian_release = chomp(debian_release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(10)\.[0-9]+", string:debian_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian 10.0', 'Debian ' + debian_release);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Debian', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'ghostscript', 'reference': '9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u7'},
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'ghostscript-dbg', 'reference': '9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u7'},
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'ghostscript-doc', 'reference': '9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u7'},
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'ghostscript-x', 'reference': '9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u7'},
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'libgs-dev', 'reference': '9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u7'},
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'libgs9', 'reference': '9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u7'},
    {'release': '10.0', 'prefix': 'libgs9-common', 'reference': '9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u7'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var _release = NULL;
  var prefix = NULL;
  var reference = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['prefix'])) prefix = package_array['prefix'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (_release && prefix && reference) {
    if (deb_check(release:_release, prefix:prefix, reference:reference)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : deb_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = deb_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'ghostscript / ghostscript-dbg / ghostscript-doc / ghostscript-x / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxghostscript-dbgp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript-dbg
debiandebian_linuxghostscript-docp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript-doc
debiandebian_linuxlibgs9-commonp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgs9-common
debiandebian_linuxghostscript-xp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript-x
debiandebian_linuxlibgs9p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgs9
debiandebian_linux10.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0
debiandebian_linuxghostscriptp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript
debiandebian_linuxlibgs-devp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgs-dev