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openSUSE 16 Security Update : ghostscript (openSUSE-SU-2026:20592-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 309884

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20592-1 advisory.

 Update to version 10.06.0.

 Security issues fixed:

 - CVE-2025-59800: an integer overflow can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow in ocr_line8 (bsc#1250355).
 - CVE-2025-59799: a large size value can cause a stack-based buffer overflow in pdfmark_coerce_dest (bsc#1250354).
 - CVE-2025-59798: stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap can lead to a denial-of-service (bsc#1250353).
 - CVE-2025-48708: lacks of argument sanitization may lead to password disclosure (bsc#1243701).
 - CVE-2025-46646: mishandling of overlong utf-8 encoding in artifex ghostscript's decode_utf8 function (bsc#1257699).

 Other updates and bugfixes:

 - switch over to libalternatives for ghostscript to provide a gs variant (bsc#1245896)

 - Version upgrade to 10.06.0:

 * removes the non-standard operator selectdevice (cf. the entry below dated Tue Apr 1 09:56:06 UTC 2025)

 - Version upgrade to 10.05.1:

 * an overflow issue in Freetype on platforms where long is a 4 byte (rather than 8 byte) type (Microsoft Windows, for example) causing corrupted glyph rendering at higher resolutions
 * an issue with embedded files, affecting Zugferd format PDF creation.
 * broken logic in PDF Optional Content processing
 * potential slow down due to searching for identifiable font files
 * a small number of extreme edge case segmentation faults.

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243701

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48708

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250353

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250354

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59798

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59799

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1245896

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250355

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257699

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46646

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59800

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59801

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 309884

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20592-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2026

Updated: 4/23/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-48708

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ghostscript

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: 4/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46646, CVE-2025-48708, CVE-2025-59798, CVE-2025-59799, CVE-2025-59800, CVE-2025-59801

IAVB: 2025-B-0043-S, 2025-B-0176