{"id":"USN-7103-1","summary":"ghostscript vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PS\nfiles. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.\n(CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46955, CVE-2024-46956)\n\nIt was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PDF\nfiles. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This\nissue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10.\n(CVE-2024-46952)\n\nIt was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PS\nfiles. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service, or possibly bypass file path validation.\nThis issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10.\n(CVE-2024-46954)\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:45:55Z","published":"2024-11-12T15:54:53Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46951","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46952","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46953","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46954","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46955","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46956"],"upstream":["CVE-2024-46951","CVE-2024-46952","CVE-2024-46953","CVE-2024-46954","CVE-2024-46955","CVE-2024-46956","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46951","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46952","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46953","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46954","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46955","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46956"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7103-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46951"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46952"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46953"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46954"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46955"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46956"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"ghostscript","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:20.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14?arch=source&distro=focal"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14"}]}],"versions":["9.27~dfsg+0-0ubuntu3","9.27~dfsg+0-0ubuntu4","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu1","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu2","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu3","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.3","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.4","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.5","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.6","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.7","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.8","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.9","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.10","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.11","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.12","9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.13"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"ghostscript","binary_version":"9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14"},{"binary_name":"ghostscript-x","binary_version":"9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14"},{"binary_name":"libgs-dev","binary_version":"9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14"},{"binary_name":"libgs9","binary_version":"9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14"},{"binary_name":"libgs9-common","binary_version":"9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14"}],"availability":"No 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