Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in Ghostscript’s International Color Consortium Format library (icclib). An attacker could create a specially crafted PostScript or PDF file with embedded images that would cause Ghostscript to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Ghostscript. (CVE-2012-4405)
Users of Ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text is (C) Scientific Linux.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(62057);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-4405");
script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : ghostscript on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120911)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript
interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which
implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and
an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was
found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library
(icclib). An attacker could create a specially crafted PostScript or
PDF file with embedded images that would cause Ghostscript to crash
or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running Ghostscript. (CVE-2012-4405)
Users of Ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain a backported patch to correct this issue."
);
# https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1209&L=scientific-linux-errata&T=0&P=1237
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?97eaf61f"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:ghostscript");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:ghostscript-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:ghostscript-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:ghostscript-gtk");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/09/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/09/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/09/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Scientific Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Scientific Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Scientific Linux 6.x", "Scientific Linux " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5_8.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5_8.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"ghostscript-8.70-14.el6_3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6_3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"ghostscript-doc-8.70-14.el6_3.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el6_3.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "ghostscript / ghostscript-devel / ghostscript-doc / ghostscript-gtk");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fermilab | scientific_linux | ghostscript | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:ghostscript |
fermilab | scientific_linux | ghostscript-devel | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:ghostscript-devel |
fermilab | scientific_linux | ghostscript-doc | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:ghostscript-doc |
fermilab | scientific_linux | ghostscript-gtk | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:ghostscript-gtk |
fermilab | scientific_linux | x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux |