An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has ghostscript packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - An issue was discovered in psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Out-of-bounds data access in     filenameforall can lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2024-46956)

  - An issue was discovered in base/gsdevice.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An integer overflow when     parsing the filename format string (for the output filename) results in path truncation, and possible path     traversal and code execution. (CVE-2024-46953)

  - An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong     UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal. (CVE-2024-46954)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7499 advisory.

    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: 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7422 advisory.

    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: 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2025:0077 advisory.

    Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2023-46751:
    An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through     10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.

    CVE-2024-46951:
    An issue was discovered in psi/zcolor.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An unchecked Implementation     pointer in Pattern color space could lead to arbitrary code execution.

    CVE-2024-46952:
    An issue was discovered in pdf/pdf_xref.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is a buffer     overflow during handling of a PDF XRef stream (related to W array values).

    CVE-2024-46953:
    An issue was discovered in base/gsdevice.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An integer overflow when     parsing the filename format string (for the output filename) results in path truncation, and possible path     traversal and code execution.

    CVE-2024-46954:
    An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong     UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.

    CVE-2024-46956:
    An issue was discovered in psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Out-of-bounds data access in     filenameforall can lead to arbitrary code execution.

    CVE-2025-27832:
    An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer     overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:7422 advisory.

    * 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-7422 advisory.

    - RHEL-18397 CVE-2023-46751 ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable()
    - RHEL-67048 CVE-2024-46951 ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color     Space
    - RHEL-67053 CVE-2024-46954 ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding
    - RHEL-67053 CVE-2024-46953 ghostscript: Path Traversal and Code Execution via Integer Overflow in     Ghostscript

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:4362 advisory.

    * 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-4362 advisory.

    - RHEL-18396 CVE-2023-46751 ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable()
    - RHEL-67046 CVE-2024-46951 ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color     Space
    - RHEL-15067 CVE-2020-27792 ghostscript: heap buffer over write vulnerability in GhostScript's     lp8000_print_page() in gdevlp8k.c
    - RHEL-67051 CVE-2024-46954 ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding
    - RHEL-67051 CVE-2024-46953 ghostscript: Path Traversal and Code Execution via Integer Overflow in     Ghostscript

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:4362 advisory.

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong     UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal. (CVE-2024-46954)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202501-06 (GPL Ghostscript: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GPL Ghostscript. Please review the CVE identifiers     referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-69af78a508 advisory.

    CVE-2024-46951 ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color Space     (fedora#2325238)

    2325241 - CVE-2024-46952 CVE-2024-46953 CVE-2024-46954 CVE-2024-46955 CVE-2024-46956 ghostscript: various     flaws [fedora-41]

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-b1877232ce advisory.

    CVE-2024-46951 ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color Space     (fedora#2325237)

    2325240 - CVE-2024-46952 CVE-2024-46953 CVE-2024-46954 CVE-2024-46955 CVE-2024-46956 ghostscript: various     flaws

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Artifex Ghostscript versions prior to 10.04.0. See vendor advisory for more details. 

  - An issue was discovered in pdf/pdf_xref.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is a buffer     overflow during handling of a PDF XRef stream (related to W array values). (CVE-2024-46952)

  - An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong     UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal. (CVE-2024-46954)

  - An issue was discovered in psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Out-of-bounds data access     in filenameforall can lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2024-46956) 

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7103-1 advisory.

    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 execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46955, CVE-2024-46956)

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PDF files. An attacker could use     this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary     code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2024-46952)

    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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2024-46954)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
238021	NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : ghostscript Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0085)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
237816	RHEL 10 : ghostscript (RHSA-2025:7499)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
237319	RHEL 9 : ghostscript (RHSA-2025:7422)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
237277	Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0077: ghostscript (ALINUX3-SA-2025:0077)	Nessus	Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks	high
237237	AlmaLinux 9 : ghostscript (ALSA-2025:7422)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
237147	Oracle Linux 9 : ghostscript (ELSA-2025-7422)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
235148	AlmaLinux 8 : ghostscript (ALSA-2025:4362)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
235035	Oracle Linux 8 : ghostscript (ELSA-2025-4362)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
235015	RHEL 8 : ghostscript (RHSA-2025:4362)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
229009	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-46954	Nessus	Misc.	high
214560	GLSA-202501-06 : GPL Ghostscript: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
211497	Fedora 41 : ghostscript (2024-69af78a508)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
211481	Fedora 40 : ghostscript (2024-b1877232ce)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
210946	Artifex Ghostscript < 10.04.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high
210776	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-7103-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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