Use After Free Affecting ghostscript package, versions <0:9.54.0-18.el9_6


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.53% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-GHOSTSCRIPT-10152965
  • published14 May 2025
  • disclosed6 Dec 2023

Introduced: 6 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-46751  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 ghostscript to version 0:9.54.0-18.el9_6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2025:7422.

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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the function gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() in Artifex Ghostscript through 10.02.0 allows remote attackers to crash the application via a dangling pointer.

CVSS Base Scores

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