Important: ghostscript security update
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: -dSAFER sandbox bypass via Type 5 shading OOB write and procedure-stream use-after-free (CVE-2026-101258) * ghostscript: ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow in pdfwrite via crafted font data (CVE-2026-103226) 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
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0:10.02.1-16.el10_2.3
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-101258, CVE-2026-103226
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 20:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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: -dSAFER sandbox bypass via Type 5 shading OOB write and procedure-stream use-after-free (CVE-2026-101258) * ghostscript: ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow in pdfwrite via crafted font data (CVE-2026-103226) 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:RLSA-2026:83551
ghostscript
Fixed versions: 0:10.02.1-16.el10_2.3
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RLSA-2026%3A83551",
"method": "structured",
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"kind": "advisory",
"title": "Important: ghostscript security update",
"summary": "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: -dSAFER sandbox bypass via Type 5 shading OOB write and procedure-stream use-after-free (CVE-2026-101258) * ghostscript: ghostscript: stack-based buffer overflow in pdfwrite via crafted font data (CVE-2026-103226) 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.",
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"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2542396",
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2543939",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83551"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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