Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in the Ghostscript suite used for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. These include buffer overflow, arbitrary code execution, directory traversal, path traversal, and out-of-bounds data access issues. The vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related products. Red Hat has issued a security advisory with updates to address these issues. The overall severity of these vulnerabilities is rated as moderate.
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Technical Summary
The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents by translating PostScript code to bitmap formats. Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in Ghostscript, including a buffer overflow in PDF XRef stream handling (CVE-2024-46952), arbitrary code execution in the pattern color space (CVE-2024-46951), directory traversal via overlong UTF-8 encoding (CVE-2024-46954), path traversal and code execution via integer overflow (CVE-2024-46953), and out-of-bounds data access leading to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-46956). These issues could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or traverse directories improperly. Red Hat has released updated packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related variants to remediate these vulnerabilities.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities in Ghostscript could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or perform directory/path traversal attacks when processing malicious PostScript or PDF documents. This could lead to unauthorized code execution on affected systems. The overall impact is rated as moderate by Red Hat Product Security.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Ghostscript packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and its variants to address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:7499 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying the official update fully mitigates the vulnerabilities. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update
Description
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in the Ghostscript suite used for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. These include buffer overflow, arbitrary code execution, directory traversal, path traversal, and out-of-bounds data access issues. The vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related products. Red Hat has issued a security advisory with updates to address these issues. The overall severity of these vulnerabilities is rated as moderate.
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Technical Analysis
The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents by translating PostScript code to bitmap formats. Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in Ghostscript, including a buffer overflow in PDF XRef stream handling (CVE-2024-46952), arbitrary code execution in the pattern color space (CVE-2024-46951), directory traversal via overlong UTF-8 encoding (CVE-2024-46954), path traversal and code execution via integer overflow (CVE-2024-46953), and out-of-bounds data access leading to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-46956). These issues could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or traverse directories improperly. Red Hat has released updated packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and related variants to remediate these vulnerabilities.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities in Ghostscript could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or perform directory/path traversal attacks when processing malicious PostScript or PDF documents. This could lead to unauthorized code execution on affected systems. The overall impact is rated as moderate by Red Hat Product Security.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Ghostscript packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and its variants to address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:7499 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying the official update fully mitigates the vulnerabilities. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:7499
- Cve Count
- 5
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2024-46952","CVE-2024-46953","CVE-2024-46954","CVE-2024-46956"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a3da1d24853345fc1825c61
Added to database: 06/25/2026, 21:46:58 UTC
Last enriched: 06/25/2026, 22:11:53 UTC
Last updated: 07/03/2026, 21:15:32 UTC
Views: 12
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