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Oracle Linux 9 : ghostscript (ELSA-2025-7586)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 237183

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-7586 advisory.

 - RHEL-88966 CVE-2025-27832 ghostscript: NPDL device: Compression buffer overflow
 - 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-7586.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 237183

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-7586.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/23/2025

Updated: 5/23/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27832

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:oracle:linux:ghostscript-tools-printing, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libgs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript-tools-fonts, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libgs, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::codeready_builder, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ghostscript-tools-dvipdf

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27832

IAVB: 2025-B-0043