CVE-2020-27792

ghostscript: The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents

CVE-2020-27792 is fixed in 11 products on 1 platform, first by ghostscript 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17, released August 19, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
Moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0047
40th percentile

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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
ghostscript · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 9.51~dfsg-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27792 Aug 19, 2022
ghostscript · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 9.51~dfsg-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27792 Aug 19, 2022
ghostscript · Debian 14 9.51~dfsg-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27792 Aug 19, 2022
ghostscript · RHEL 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 RHSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17 ghostscript 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17 Aug 19, 2022
ghostscript · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6 ghostscript 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6 Aug 19, 2022
ghostscript · almalinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10 ALSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript · ol 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 ELSA-2025-4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript · rocky 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 RLSA-2025:4362 Jul 29, 2025
ghostscript-doc · RHEL 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 RHSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-doc · almalinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10 ALSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-doc · ol 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 ELSA-2025-4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf · RHEL 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 RHSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf · almalinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10 ALSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf · ol 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 ELSA-2025-4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-tools-fonts · RHEL 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 RHSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-tools-fonts · almalinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10 ALSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-tools-fonts · ol 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 ELSA-2025-4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-tools-printing · RHEL 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 RHSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-tools-printing · almalinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10 ALSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-tools-printing · ol 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 ELSA-2025-4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-x · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17 ghostscript-x 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17 Aug 19, 2022
ghostscript-x · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6 ghostscript-x 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6 Aug 19, 2022
ghostscript-x11 · RHEL 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 RHSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-x11 · almalinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10 ALSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
ghostscript-x11 · ol 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 ELSA-2025-4362 Apr 30, 2025
libgs · RHEL 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 RHSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
libgs · almalinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10 ALSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
libgs · ol 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 ELSA-2025-4362 Apr 30, 2025
libgs-devel · RHEL 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 RHSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
libgs-devel · almalinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10 ALSA-2025:4362 Apr 30, 2025
libgs-devel · ol 8 0:9.27-16.el8_10 ELSA-2025-4362 Apr 30, 2025
libgs9 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17 libgs9 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17 Aug 19, 2022
libgs9 · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6 libgs9 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6 Aug 19, 2022
libgs9-common · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17 libgs9-common 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.17 Aug 19, 2022
libgs9-common · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6 libgs9-common 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6 Aug 19, 2022

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