RHEL 8 : ghostscript (RHSA-2025:4362)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235015

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for ghostscript.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL ghostscript package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:4362.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235015

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-4362.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/30/2025

Updated: 4/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-46956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-tools-fonts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libgs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-tools-printing, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ghostscript-x11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27792, CVE-2023-46751, CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46952, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46954, CVE-2024-46956

CWE: 119, 120, 125, 190, 22, 416, 824

RHSA: 2025:4362

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