SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ghostscript (SUSE-SU-2025:1118-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 233800

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:1118-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-27831: Fixed text buffer overflow in DOCXWRITE TXTWRITE device via long characters to devices/vector/doc_common.c (bsc#1240075)
- CVE-2025-27832: Fixed compression buffer overflow in NPDL device for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c (bsc#1240077)
- CVE-2025-27835: Fixed buffer overflow occurs when converting glyphs to Unicode in psi/zbfont.c (bsc#1240080)
- CVE-2025-27836: Fixed Print buffer overflow in BJ10V device in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c (bsc#1240081)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript, ghostscript-devel and / or ghostscript-x11 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 233800

File Name: suse_SU-2025-1118-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/3/2025

Updated: 4/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27836

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-x11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ghostscript-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27831, CVE-2025-27832, CVE-2025-27835, CVE-2025-27836

IAVB: 2025-B-0043

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:1118-1

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