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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Moderate: ghostscript security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2025:4362-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4362
Issue date:         2025-04-30
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2020-27792
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Summary: 

An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.




Description:

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed.

Security Fix(es):

* ghostscript: heap buffer over write vulnerability in GhostScript's lp8000_print_page() in gdevlp8k.c (CVE-2020-27792)

* ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() (CVE-2023-46751)

* ghostscript: Buffer Overflow in Ghostscript PDF XRef Stream Handling (CVE-2024-46952)

* ghostscript: Arbitrary Code Execution in Artifex Ghostscript Pattern Color Space (CVE-2024-46951)

* ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding (CVE-2024-46954)

* ghostscript: Path Traversal and Code Execution via Integer Overflow in Ghostscript (CVE-2024-46953)

* ghostscript: Out-of-Bounds Data Access in Ghostscript Leads to Arbitrary Code Execution (CVE-2024-46956)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2020-27792

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247179
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253365
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325041
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325043
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325044
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325045
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325047