A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 25.04 - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript. Software Description: - ghostscript: PostScript and PDF interpreter Details: It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled opening a file to write. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2025-7462) It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled writing certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2025-59798, CVE-2025-59799) It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled performing OCR on certain files. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-59800)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 25.04 ghostscript 10.05.0dfsg1-0ubuntu1.2 libgs10 10.05.0dfsg1-0ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ghostscript 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.8 libgs10 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.8 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ghostscript 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.13 libgs9 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.13 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7782-1
CVE-2025-59798, CVE-2025-59799, CVE-2025-59800, CVE-2025-7462
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/10.05.0dfsg1-0ubuntu1.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.8 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.13
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