SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2025:4125-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 275756

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4125-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-59798: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c.
(bsc#1250353)
- CVE-2025-59799: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in pdfmark_coerce_dest in devices/vector/gdevpdfm.c via a large size value. (bsc#1250354)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 ghostscript, ghostscript-devel and / or ghostscript-x11 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 275756

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4125-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/19/2025

Updated: 11/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.26

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-59799

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-x11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-59798, CVE-2025-59799

IAVB: 2025-B-0176

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4125-1

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