Security update for ghostscript

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:21363-1
Release Date: 2026-04-21T09:49:39Z
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2025-46646 ( SUSE ): 2.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2025-46646 ( NVD ): 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2025-48708 ( SUSE ): 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2025-48708 ( NVD ): 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2025-48708 ( NVD ): 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2025-59798 ( SUSE ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2025-59798 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2025-59798 ( NVD ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2025-59799 ( SUSE ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2025-59799 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2025-59799 ( NVD ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2025-59800 ( SUSE ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2025-59800 ( NVD ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
  • CVE-2025-59800 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2025-59801 ( NVD ): 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0

An update that solves six vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

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.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-602=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-602=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-devel-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-debugsource-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-x11-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-debuginfo-10.06.0-160000.1.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-devel-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-debugsource-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-x11-10.06.0-160000.1.1
    • ghostscript-debuginfo-10.06.0-160000.1.1

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