Use After Free Affecting ghostscript-debuginfo package, versions <0:9.27-16.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.53% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-GHOSTSCRIPTDEBUGINFO-11329923
  • published30 Jul 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 Rocky-Linux:8 ghostscript-debuginfo to version 0:9.27-16.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2025:4362.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-debuginfo package and not the ghostscript-debuginfo package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 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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