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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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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("1.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/13 12:30:47");

  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_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  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_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");

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

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  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");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxghostscriptp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ghostscript
debiandebian_linux9.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0