{"id":"USN-7138-1","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","modified":"2026-02-10T04:45:56Z","published":"2024-12-05T13:43:15Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46951","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46953","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46955","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46956"],"upstream":["CVE-2024-46951","CVE-2024-46953","CVE-2024-46955","CVE-2024-46956","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46951","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46953","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46955","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46956"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7138-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46951"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-46953"},{"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:Pro:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm8?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm8"}]}],"versions":["9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu3","9.16~dfsg~0-0ubuntu4","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu1","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.2","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.3","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.4","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.6","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.7","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.8","9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.9","9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1","9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2","9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.4","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.5","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.6","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.7","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.8","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.9","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.10","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.11","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.12","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.13","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm1","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm2","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm3","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm4","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm5","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm6","9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm7"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm8","binary_name":"ghostscript"},{"binary_version":"9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm8","binary_name":"ghostscript-x"},{"binary_version":"9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm8","binary_name":"libgs-dev"},{"binary_version":"9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm8","binary_name":"libgs9"},{"binary_version":"9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm8","binary_name":"libgs9-common"}],"availability":"Available 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