RHSA-2025:7422MediumCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update

Published
May 13, 2025
Last Modified
November 3, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2024-46956 →CVE-2023-46751 →CVE-2024-46951 →CVE-2024-46952 →CVE-2024-46953 →CVE-2024-46954 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-46751 — ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() CVE-2024-46951 — ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color Space CVE-2024-46952 — ghostscript: Buffer Overflow in Ghostscript PDF XRef Stream Handling CVE-2024-46953 — ghostscript: Path Traversal and Code Execution via Integer Overflow in Ghostscript CVE-2024-46954 — ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding CVE-2024-46956 — ghostscript: Out-of-Bounds Data Access in Ghostscript Leads to Arbitrary Code Execution

🎯 Affected products87

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-debugsource-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-doc-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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