CVE-2025-59801

Publication date 22 September 2025

Last updated 25 September 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

In Artifex GhostXPS before 10.06.0, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in xps_unpredict_tiff in xpstiff.c because the samplesperpixel value is not checked.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ghostscript 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

XPS isn't in the source tarball used by the ghostscript package in Ubuntu

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ghostscript

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.3 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

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