alsa-2025:4362
Vulnerability from osv_almalinux
Published
2025-04-30 00:00
Modified
2025-05-05 09:45
Summary
Moderate: ghostscript security update
Details

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.

Security Fix(es):

  • ghostscript: heap buffer over write vulnerability in GhostScript's lp8000_print_page() in gdevlp8k.c (CVE-2020-27792)
  • ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() (CVE-2023-46751)
  • ghostscript: Buffer Overflow in Ghostscript PDF XRef Stream Handling (CVE-2024-46952)
  • ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color Space (CVE-2024-46951)
  • ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding (CVE-2024-46954)
  • ghostscript: Path Traversal and Code Execution via Integer Overflow in Ghostscript (CVE-2024-46953)
  • ghostscript: Out-of-Bounds Data Access in Ghostscript Leads to Arbitrary Code Execution (CVE-2024-46956)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References
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        "name": "ghostscript"
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  "details": "The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.  \n\nSecurity Fix(es):  \n\n  * ghostscript: heap buffer over write vulnerability in GhostScript\u0027s lp8000_print_page() in gdevlp8k.c (CVE-2020-27792)\n  * ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() (CVE-2023-46751)\n  * ghostscript: Buffer Overflow in Ghostscript PDF XRef Stream Handling (CVE-2024-46952)\n  * ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color Space (CVE-2024-46951)\n  * ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding (CVE-2024-46954)\n  * ghostscript: Path Traversal and Code Execution via Integer Overflow in Ghostscript (CVE-2024-46953)\n  * ghostscript: Out-of-Bounds Data Access in Ghostscript Leads to Arbitrary Code Execution (CVE-2024-46956)\n\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.\n",
  "id": "ALSA-2025:4362",
  "modified": "2025-05-05T09:45:16Z",
  "published": "2025-04-30T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4362"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27792"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-46751"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46951"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46952"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46953"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46954"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46956"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2247179"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2253365"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2325041"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2325043"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2325044"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2325045"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2325047"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-4362.html"
    }
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    "CVE-2020-27792",
    "CVE-2023-46751",
    "CVE-2024-46952",
    "CVE-2024-46951",
    "CVE-2024-46954",
    "CVE-2024-46953",
    "CVE-2024-46956"
  ],
  "summary": "Moderate: ghostscript security update"
}


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