openSUSE-SU-2026:20592-1

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https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/openSUSE-SU-2026:20592-1.json
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https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/openSUSE-SU-2026:20592-1
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CVE (6)
Related
Published
2026-04-21T09:49:39Z
Modified
2026-04-23T18:27:36Z
Summary
Security update for ghostscript
Details

This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:

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.
References

Affected packages

openSUSE:Leap 16.0 / ghostscript

Package

Name
ghostscript
Purl
pkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
10.06.0-160000.1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "ghostscript":  "10.06.0-160000.1.1",
            "ghostscript-devel":  "10.06.0-160000.1.1",
            "ghostscript-x11":  "10.06.0-160000.1.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/openSUSE-SU-2026:20592-1.json"