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<h1>Security update for ghostscript</h1>
<table class="table table-striped table-bordered">
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2026:21363-1</td>
</tr>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2026-04-21T09:49:39Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>moderate</td>
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<th>References:</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243701">bsc#1243701</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245896">bsc#1245896</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250353">bsc#1250353</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250354">bsc#1250354</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250355">bsc#1250355</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257699">bsc#1257699</a>
</li>
</ul>
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</tr>
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<th>
Cross-References:
</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46646.html">CVE-2025-46646</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48708.html">CVE-2025-48708</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59798.html">CVE-2025-59798</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59799.html">CVE-2025-59799</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59800.html">CVE-2025-59800</a>
</li>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59801.html">CVE-2025-59801</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>CVSS scores:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-46646</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">2.9</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-46646</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-48708</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">3.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-48708</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.0</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-48708</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">3.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59798</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59798</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59798</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59799</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59799</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59799</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59800</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59800</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59800</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.5</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H</span>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-59801</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">4.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N</span>
</li>
</ul>
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<tr>
<th>Affected Products:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0</li>
</ul>
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<p>An update that solves six vulnerabilities can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues:</p>
<p>Update to version 10.06.0.</p>
<p>Security issues fixed:</p>
<ul>
<li>CVE-2025-59800: an integer overflow can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow in ocr_line8 (bsc#1250355).</li>
<li>CVE-2025-59799: a large size value can cause a stack-based buffer overflow in pdfmark_coerce_dest (bsc#1250354).</li>
<li>CVE-2025-59798: stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap can lead to a denial-of-service (bsc#1250353).</li>
<li>CVE-2025-48708: lacks of argument sanitization may lead to password disclosure (bsc#1243701).</li>
<li>CVE-2025-46646: mishandling of overlong utf-8 encoding in artifex ghostscript's decode_utf8 function (bsc#1257699).</li>
</ul>
<p>Other updates and bugfixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>switch over to libalternatives for ghostscript to provide a gs
variant (bsc#1245896)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Version upgrade to 10.06.0:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>removes the non-standard operator "selectdevice"
(cf. the entry below dated Tue Apr 1 09:56:06 UTC 2025)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Version upgrade to 10.05.1:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>an overflow issue in Freetype on platforms
where long is a 4 byte (rather than 8 byte) type
(Microsoft Windows, for example) causing corrupted
glyph rendering at higher resolutions</p>
</li>
<li>an issue with embedded files, affecting Zugferd
format PDF creation.</li>
<li>broken logic in PDF Optional Content processing</li>
<li>potential slow down due to searching for identifiable
font files</li>
<li>a small number of extreme edge case segmentation faults.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
</p>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-602=1</code>
</li>
<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-602=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 (ppc64le x86_64)
<ul>
<li>ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-devel-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-debugsource-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-x11-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-debuginfo-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-devel-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-debugsource-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-x11-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
<li>ghostscript-debuginfo-10.06.0-160000.1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46646.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46646.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48708.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-48708.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59798.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59798.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59799.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59799.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59800.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59800.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59801.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59801.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243701">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243701</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245896">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245896</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250353">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250353</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250354">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250354</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250355">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250355</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257699">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257699</a>
</li>
</ul>
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