CVE-2026-112177

Name	CVE-2026-112177
Description	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. Processing a specially crafted PostScript file may allow an attacker to bypass -dSAFER restrictions and access files outside the permitted paths or execute commands with the permissions of the Ghostscript process.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
ghostscript (PTS)	bookworm, bookworm (security)	10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u8	fixed
	trixie	10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u1	fixed
	trixie (security)	10.05.1~dfsg-1+deb13u3	fixed
	forky, sid	10.08.0~dfsg-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
ghostscript	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- ghostscript <not-affected> (Red Hat specific packaging issue not including CVE-2019-14869 fix)