PT-2025-38683 · Artifex+6 · Ghostscript+6

Published 2025-05-12 · Updated 2026-05-24 · CVE-2025-59798

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Artifex Ghostscript versions through 10.05.1

Description: Artifex Ghostscript through version 10.05.1 contains a stack-based buffer overflow in the pdf write cmap function within the devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c file.

Recommendations: Update to a version of Artifex Ghostscript later than 10.05.1.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Stack Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-121

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2025-12553

BDU:2025-11520

CVE-2025-59798

DLA-4330-1

DSA-6024-1

OESA-2026-1222

OESA-2026-1223

OESA-2026-1224

OESA-2026-1225

OESA-2026-1226

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15707-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20592-1

SUSE-SU-2025:4125-1

SUSE-SU-2025:4148-1

SUSE-SU-2025_4125-1

SUSE-SU-2025_4148-1

SUSE-SU-2026:21363-1

USN-7782-1

USN-7904-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Ghostscript

Linuxmint

Red Os

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 71

• 🔥 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708539 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7782-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-59800 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59800 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59798 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7904-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7904-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-7462 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OESA-2026-1224 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2025:4148-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=0cae41b23a9669e801211dd4cf97b6dadd6dbdd7 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59799 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59798 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-11520 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-6024-1 · Vendor Advisory