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: Reintroduction of .charkeys -dSAFER bypass in AlmaLinux 8 (CVE-2026-112177)
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.
Fixed packages 8
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 8 | ghostscript | 9.27-20.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | ghostscript-doc | 9.27-20.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | ghostscript-tools-dvipdf | 9.27-20.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | ghostscript-tools-fonts | 9.27-20.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | ghostscript-tools-printing | 9.27-20.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | ghostscript-x11 | 9.27-20.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | libgs | 9.27-20.el8_10 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | libgs-devel | 9.27-20.el8_10 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.3
Ghostscript: reintroduction of .charkeys -dsafer bypass in rhel 8
A flaw was found in Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The correction for CVE-2019-14869 was omitted during the rebase from version 9.25 to 9.27, leaving privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure insufficiently protected.…