ALSA-2026:93978: Important: ghostscript security update
Published Nov 2, 2026
·Updated
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.
Affected Software
8 affected componentsFixes available
almalinux/ghostscript<9.27-20.el8_10
9.27-20.el8_10
almalinux/ghostscript-doc<9.27-20.el8_10
9.27-20.el8_10
almalinux/ghostscript-tools-dvipdf<9.27-20.el8_10
9.27-20.el8_10
almalinux/ghostscript-tools-fonts<9.27-20.el8_10
9.27-20.el8_10
almalinux/ghostscript-tools-printing<9.27-20.el8_10
9.27-20.el8_10
almalinux/ghostscript-x11<9.27-20.el8_10
9.27-20.el8_10
almalinux/libgs<9.27-20.el8_10
9.27-20.el8_10
almalinux/libgs-devel<9.27-20.el8_10
9.27-20.el8_10
Event History
Nov 2, 2026
Advisory Published
via OSV·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via OSV·12:00 AM
DescriptionAffected Software