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Moderate: ghostscript security update

Type: advisorySources: OSV

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed. Security Fix(es): * ghostscript: ghostscript: Heap buffer overflow via JPEG 2000 output adapter (CVE-2026-39919) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Products
ghostscript, ghostscript-doc, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, ghostscript-tools-fonts, ghostscript-tools-printing, ghostscript-x11, libgs, libgs-devel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
9.27-18.el8_10
CVEs
Not specified
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
28 Oct 2026, 04:07 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Moderate: ghostscript security update

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC

The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed. Security Fix(es): * ghostscript: ghostscript: Heap buffer overflow via JPEG 2000 output adapter (CVE-2026-39919) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

osv:ALSA-2026:76877

ghostscript

Fixed versions: 9.27-18.el8_10

ghostscript-doc

Fixed versions: 9.27-18.el8_10

ghostscript-tools-dvipdf

Fixed versions: 9.27-18.el8_10

ghostscript-tools-fonts

Fixed versions: 9.27-18.el8_10

ghostscript-tools-printing

Fixed versions: 9.27-18.el8_10

ghostscript-x11

Fixed versions: 9.27-18.el8_10

libgs

Fixed versions: 9.27-18.el8_10

libgs-devel

Fixed versions: 9.27-18.el8_10

Complete source record
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