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Fedora 42 ghostscript Critical Security Issues CVE-2025-59798

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security fix for ghostscript vulnerabilities CVE-2025-59798, CVE-2025-59799, and CVE-2025-59800 on Fedora 42.
security fix for CVE-2025-59798, CVE-2025-59799, CVE-2025-59800 (fedora#2431544, fedora#2431548, fedora#2431546)

Summary

This package provides useful conversion utilities based on Ghostscript software,

for converting PS, PDF and other document formats between each other.

Ghostscript is a suite of software providing an interpreter for Adobe Systems'

PostScript (PS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.

Its primary purpose includes displaying (rasterization & rendering) and printing

of document pages, as well as conversions between different document formats.

Update Information:

security fix for CVE-2025-59798, CVE-2025-59799, CVE-2025-59800 (fedora#2431544, fedora#2431548, fedora#2431546)

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow critical software update ghostscript

Change Log

* Wed Jan 21 2026 Zdenek Dohnal - 10.05.1-6 - security fix for CVE-2025-59798, CVE-2025-59799, CVE-2025-59800 (fedora#2431544, fedora#2431548, fedora#2431546) * Wed Jul 23 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 10.05.1-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2431545 - CVE-2025-59798 ghostscript: From CVEorg collector [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431545 [ 2 ] Bug #2431547 - CVE-2025-59800 ghostscript: From CVEorg collector [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431547 [ 3 ] Bug #2431549 - CVE-2025-59799 ghostscript: From CVEorg collector [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431549

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-d7cbd53e55' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: ghostscript
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 10.05.1
Release: 6.fc42
URL: https://ghostscript.com/
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow critical software update ghostscript

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