ALSA-2025:4362

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 lp8000printpage() in gdevlp8k.c (CVE-2020-27792)
• ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdevprnopenprinterseekable() (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.