CVE-2025-7462 (GCVE-0-2025-7462)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-12 05:32 – Updated: 2025-11-03 17:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Artifex GhostPDL New Output File Open Error gdevpdf.c pdf_ferror null pointer dereference
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Artifex GhostPDL up to 3989415a5b8e99b9d1b87cc9902bde9b7cdea145. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function pdf_ferror of the file devices/vector/gdevpdf.c of the component New Output File Open Error Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The identifier of the patch is 619a106ba4c4abed95110f84d5efcd7aee38c7cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-14 19:13 UTC
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/?id.316113 | vdb-entrytechnical-description |
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| https://vuldb.com/?submit.610173 | third-party-advisory |
| https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/gho… | patch |
| https://artifex.com/ | product |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025… |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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