SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1)
🗓️ 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 526 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Ghostscript affect PowerKVM | 4 Mar 201905:50 | – | ibm | |
| Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Ghostscript affect PowerKVM | 17 Dec 201814:30 | – | ibm | |
| Exploit for CVE-2018-16509 | 15 Oct 201807:44 | – | githubexploit | |
| Ghostscript -- arbitrary code execution | 21 Aug 201800:00 | – | freebsd | |
| CVE-2018-16863 | 3 Dec 201817:29 | – | attackerkb | |
| Amazon Linux 2 : ghostscript (ALAS-2018-1088) | 11 Oct 201800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Amazon Linux 2 : ghostscript (ALAS-2021-1598) | 19 Feb 202100:00 | – | nessus | |
| Amazon Linux AMI : ghostscript (ALAS-2018-1137) | 21 Dec 201800:00 | – | nessus | |
| CentOS 7 : ghostscript (CESA-2018:2918) | 16 Oct 201800:00 | – | nessus | |
| CentOS 7 : ghostscript (CESA-2018:3650) | 14 Dec 201800:00 | – | nessus |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.4.2018.2975.1");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-15908", "CVE-2018-15909", "CVE-2018-15910", "CVE-2018-15911", "CVE-2018-16509", "CVE-2018-16510", "CVE-2018-16511", "CVE-2018-16513", "CVE-2018-16539", "CVE-2018-16540", "CVE-2018-16541", "CVE-2018-16542", "CVE-2018-16543", "CVE-2018-16585", "CVE-2018-16802", "CVE-2018-17183");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-04-19 00:00:00 +0000 (Mon, 19 Apr 2021)");
script_version("2025-08-15T15:42:25+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-08-15 15:42:25 +0000 (Fri, 15 Aug 2025)");
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_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-11-19 14:24:03 +0000 (Mon, 19 Nov 2018)");
script_name("SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
script_family("SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/suse_sles", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=(SLES12\.0|SLES12\.0SP1|SLES12\.0SP2|SLES12\.0SP3)");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20182975-1.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.25/News.htm");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106171");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106172");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106173");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106195");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107410");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107411");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107412");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107413");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107420");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107421");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107422");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107423");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107426");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107581");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108027");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109105");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-October/004632.html");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'ghostscript' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This update for ghostscript to version 9.25 fixes the following issues:
These security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2018-17183: Remote attackers were be able to supply crafted PostScript to
potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code (bsc#1109105)
- CVE-2018-15909: Prevent type confusion using the .shfill operator that could
have been used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash
the interpreter or potentially execute code (bsc#1106172).
- CVE-2018-15908: Prevent attackers that are able to supply malicious
PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files
(bsc#1106171).
- CVE-2018-15910: Prevent a type confusion in the LockDistillerParams parameter
that could have been used to crash the interpreter or execute code
(bsc#1106173).
- CVE-2018-15911: Prevent use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode
operator that could have been used to crash the interpreter or potentially
execute code (bsc#1106195).
- CVE-2018-16513: Prevent a type confusion in the setcolor function that could
have been used to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other
impact (bsc#1107412).
- CVE-2018-16509: Incorrect 'restoration of privilege' checking during handling
of /invalidaccess exceptions could be have been used by attackers able to
supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the 'pipe' instruction
(bsc#1107410).
- CVE-2018-16510: Incorrect exec stack handling in the 'CS' and 'SC' PDF
primitives could have been used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PDFs
to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact
(bsc#1107411).
- CVE-2018-16542: Prevent attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files
from using insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling
to crash the interpreter (bsc#1107413).
- CVE-2018-16541: Prevent attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files
from using incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement to crash the
interpreter (bsc#1107421).
- CVE-2018-16540: Prevent use-after-free in copydevice handling that could have
been used to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact
(bsc#1107420).
- CVE-2018-16539: Prevent attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files
from using incorrect access checking in temp file handling to disclose contents
of files on the system otherwise not readable (bsc#1107422).
- CVE-2018-16543: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allowed attackers to have
an unspecified impact (bsc#1107423).
- CVE-2018-16511: A type confusion in 'ztype' could have been used by remote
attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to crash the interpreter or
possibly have unspecified other impact (bsc#1107426).
- CVE-2018-16585: The .setdistillerkeys PostScript command was accepted even
though it is not intended for use during document processing (e.g., after the
startup phase). This lead to memory ... [Please see the references for more information on the vulnerabilities]");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'ghostscript' package(s) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12-SP3.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "SLES12.0") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ghostscript", rpm:"ghostscript~9.25~23.13.1", rls:"SLES12.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ghostscript-x11", rpm:"ghostscript-x11~9.25~23.13.1", rls:"SLES12.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "SLES12.0SP1") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ghostscript", rpm:"ghostscript~9.25~23.13.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ghostscript-x11", rpm:"ghostscript-x11~9.25~23.13.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "SLES12.0SP2") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ghostscript", rpm:"ghostscript~9.25~23.13.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ghostscript-x11", rpm:"ghostscript-x11~9.25~23.13.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "SLES12.0SP3") {
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ghostscript", rpm:"ghostscript~9.25~23.13.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP3"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ghostscript-x11", rpm:"ghostscript-x11~9.25~23.13.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP3"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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