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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-7782-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 266305

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7782-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 266305

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7782-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/30/2025

Updated: 9/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-7462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-59800

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs9-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript-x, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs10-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-59798, CVE-2025-59799, CVE-2025-59800, CVE-2025-7462

USN: 7782-1