Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.52-150000.211.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-GHOSTSCRIPT-14089325
  • published21 Nov 2025
  • disclosed20 Nov 2025

Introduced: 20 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2025-59798  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 ghostscript to version 9.52-150000.211.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1