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 remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-4330 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4330-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                          Abhijith PA     October 14, 2025                              https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : ghostscript     Version        : 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u11     CVE ID         : CVE-2025-7462 CVE-2025-59798 CVE-2025-59799

    Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in ghostcript, an interpreter     for the PostScript language and PDF.

    CVE-2025-7462

        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.

    CVE-2025-59798

        A stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in         devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c.

    CVE-2025-59799

        a stack-based buffer overflow in pdfmark_coerce_dest in         devices/vector/gdevpdfm.c via a large size value.

    For Debian 11 bullseye, these problems have been fixed in version     9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u11.

    We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

    For the detailed security status of ghostscript please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ghostscript

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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 Debian 12 / 13 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-6024 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-6024-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                     Salvatore Bonaccorso     October 11, 2025                      https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : ghostscript     CVE ID         : CVE-2025-7462 CVE-2025-59798 CVE-2025-59799     Debian Bug     : 1109270 1116443 1116444

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL     PostScript/PDF interpreter, which could result in denial of service and     potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed document files     are processed.

    For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed     in version 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8.

    For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in     version 10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

    For the detailed security status of ghostscript please refer to its     security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ghostscript

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7782-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled opening a file to write. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2025-7462)

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled writing certain files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2025-59798,     CVE-2025-59799)

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled performing OCR on certain files. An attacker could     use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-59800)

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.

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
270336	Debian dla-4330 : ghostscript - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
270079	Debian dsa-6024 : ghostscript - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
266305	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-7782-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
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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