A vulnerability was found in Artifex GhostPDL up to 3989415a5b8e99b9d1b87cc9902bde9b7cdea145. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function pdf_ferror of the file devices/vector/gdevpdf.c of the component New Output File Open Error Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The identifier of the patch is 619a106ba4c4abed95110f84d5efcd7aee38c7cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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

  - A vulnerability was found in Artifex GhostPDL up to 3989415a5b8e99b9d1b87cc9902bde9b7cdea145. It has been     classified as problematic. This affects the function pdf_ferror of the file devices/vector/gdevpdf.c of     the component New Output File Open Error Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It     is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The identifier of the patch is     619a106ba4c4abed95110f84d5efcd7aee38c7cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    (CVE-2025-7462)

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

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1118 advisory.

    A vulnerability was found in Artifex GhostPDL up to 3989415a5b8e99b9d1b87cc9902bde9b7cdea145. It has been     classified as problematic. This affects the function pdf_ferror of the file devices/vector/gdevpdf.c of     the component New Output File Open Error Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It     is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The identifier of the patch is     619a106ba4c4abed95110f84d5efcd7aee38c7cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    (CVE-2025-7462)

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

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

The version of ghostscript installed on the remote host is prior to 9.54.0-9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2947 advisory.

    A vulnerability was found in Artifex GhostPDL up to 3989415a5b8e99b9d1b87cc9902bde9b7cdea145. It has been     classified as problematic. This affects the function pdf_ferror of the file devices/vector/gdevpdf.c of     the component New Output File Open Error Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It     is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The identifier of the patch is     619a106ba4c4abed95110f84d5efcd7aee38c7cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    (CVE-2025-7462)

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
244668	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-7462	Nessus	Misc.	medium
243496	Amazon Linux 2023 : ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf (ALAS2023-2025-1118)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
243436	Amazon Linux 2 : ghostscript (ALAS-2025-2947)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium

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