USN-7473-1

It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PS files. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly bypass file path validation.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / ghostscript

Package

Name: ghostscript
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6

Affected versions

10.*

10.01.2~dfsg1-0ubuntu2

10.01.2~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.1

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu1

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu2

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu5

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu6

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.1

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.4

10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript",
            "binary_version": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgs-common",
            "binary_version": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgs-dev",
            "binary_version": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgs10",
            "binary_version": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgs10-common",
            "binary_version": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2025-46646"
        }
    ]
}