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Fedora 41 : ghostscript (2025-47818d27ba)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 233884

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-47818d27ba advisory.

 CVE-2025-27835 ghostscript: Buffer overflow when converting glyphs to unicode (fedora#2355026)

 CVE-2025-27834 ghostscript: Buffer overflow caused by an oversized Type 4 function in a PDF (fedora#2355024)

 CVE-2025-27832 ghostscript: NPDL device: Compression buffer overflow (fedora#2355022)

 CVE-2025-27836 ghostscript: device: Print buffer overflow (fedora#2355020)

 CVE-2025-27830 ghostscript: Buffer overflow during serialization of DollarBlend in font (fedora#2355016)

 CVE-2025-27833 ghostscript: Buffer overflow with long TTF font name (fedora#2355012)

 CVE-2025-27837 ghostscript: Access to arbitrary files through truncated path with invalid UTF-8 (fedora#2355010)

 CVE-2025-27831 ghostscript: Text buffer overflow with long characters (fedora#2355008)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-47818d27ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 233884

File Name: fedora_2025-47818d27ba.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/5/2025

Updated: 4/5/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27837

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27830, CVE-2025-27831, CVE-2025-27832, CVE-2025-27833, CVE-2025-27834, CVE-2025-27835, CVE-2025-27836, CVE-2025-27837

FEDORA: 2025-47818d27ba

IAVB: 2025-B-0043