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High ALSA-2024:4000 1 CVE

Important: ghostscript security update

Published Jun 20, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

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: OPVP device arbitrary code execution via custom Driver library (CVE-2024-33871)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript 9.27-13.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-doc 9.27-13.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 9.27-13.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.27-13.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-tools-printing 9.27-13.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 ghostscript-x11 9.27-13.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 libgs 9.27-13.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 libgs-devel 9.27-13.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-33871
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2283508
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-4000.html