Ghostscript Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities - Windows
🗓️ 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 142 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2009-0196 | 16 Apr 200915:12 | – | attackerkb | |
| Vulnerabilities of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, which allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information | 28 Apr 201500:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CentOS 3 / 4 : ghostscript (CESA-2009:0420) | 15 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| CentOS 5 : ghostscript (CESA-2009:0421) | 6 Jan 201000:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DSA-2080-1 : ghostscript - several vulnerabilities | 3 Aug 201000:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 9 : argyllcms-1.0.3-4.fc9 (2009-3430) | 10 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 10 : argyllcms-1.0.3-4.fc10 (2009-3435) | 23 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 10 : ghostscript-8.63-6.fc10 (2009-3709) | 23 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 9 : ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9 (2009-3710) | 16 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 9 : argyllcms-1.0.3-5.fc9 (2009-3720) | 21 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| ghostscript | www.ghostscript.com/releases/ |
| securitytracker | www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Apr/1022029.html |
| secunia | www.secunia.com/advisories/34292 |
| vupen | www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0983 |
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/34445 |
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/34184 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900540");
script_version("2025-03-05T05:38:52+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-03-05 05:38:52 +0000 (Wed, 05 Mar 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-04-28 07:58:48 +0200 (Tue, 28 Apr 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-0792", "CVE-2009-0196");
script_name("Ghostscript Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/34292");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34184");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34445");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0983");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2009/Apr/1022029.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Buffer overflow");
script_dependencies("secpod_ghostscript_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("artifex/ghostscript/win/detected");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation allows the attacker to execute arbitrary code in
the context of the affected application and can cause denial of service.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Ghostscript version 8.64 and prior on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"These flaws arise due to:
- a boundary error in the jbig2_symbol_dict.c() function in the JBIG2
decoding library (jbig2dec) while decoding JBIG2 symbol dictionary
segments.
- multiple integer overflows in icc.c in the ICC Format library while
processing malformed PDF and PostScript files with embedded images.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Ghostscript version 8.71 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Ghostscript is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://ghostscript.com/releases/");
exit(0);
}
CPE = "cpe:/a:artifex:ghostscript";
include( "host_details.inc" );
include( "version_func.inc" );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe: CPE, exit_no_version: TRUE ) ) exit( 0 );
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if( version_is_less_equal( version: version, test_version: "8.64" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.71", install_path: location );
security_message( data: report, port: 0 );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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