CVE-2024-46955

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-11-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in psi/zcolor.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is an out-of-bounds read when reading color in Indexed color space.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript: before 10.04.0 — fixed in 10.04.0
Debian Linux: 12.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing: 12.0-sp5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 12-sp5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server For Sap: 12-sp5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Artifex Ghostscript 10.04.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707990
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=85bd9d2f4b792fe67aef22f1a4117457461b8ba6
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2024/suse-su-20243942-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00023.html

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