Buffer Overflow Affecting ghostscript package, versions <0:10.02.1-15.el10_0


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-GHOSTSCRIPT-10182898
  • published19 May 2025
  • disclosed10 Nov 2024

Introduced: 10 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-46952  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 ghostscript to version 0:10.02.1-15.el10_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2025:7499.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in pdf/pdf_xref.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is a buffer overflow during handling of a PDF XRef stream (related to W array values).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1