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.
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
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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