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openSUSE-SU-2022:0088-1 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence

Vulnerability IntelligenceopenSUSE-SU-2022:0088-1

openSUSE-SU-2022:0088-1

MEDIUM6.2

Security update for ghostscript

Published Jan 17, 2022

Modified 4 years ago

Fix available

Details

Description of the patch:

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:

CVE-2021-45944: Fixed use-after-free in sampled_data_sample (bsc#1194303)
CVE-2021-45949: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (bsc#1194304)

Affected Packages

htmldoc

SUSE Package Hub 12 SP1

Fixed in:

1.8.28-9.1

ghostscript

openSUSE Leap 15.3

Fixed in:

9.52-161.1

ghostscript-devel

openSUSE Leap 15.3

Fixed in:

9.52-161.1

ghostscript-x11

openSUSE Leap 15.3

Fixed in:

9.52-161.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194303

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1194304

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/4UJWNOWSKPBGYUCFFUB7ANJL7A2J2AML/

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/4UJWNOWSKPBGYUCFFUB7ANJL7A2J2AML/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45944/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45949/

https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

6.2

Exploitability

Attack Vector

LocalAV:L

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

6.2/CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Upstream

CVE-2021-45944 CVE-2021-45949

Ecosystems

SUSE Package Hub 12 SP1 openSUSE Leap 15.3

Timeline

PublishedJan 17, 2022

ModifiedJan 17, 2022