#1124297 ghostscript: OPVP device crash due to CVE backport, patch available

Package:
ghostscript
Source:
ghostscript
Description:
interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
Submitter:
ValdikSS
Date:
2026-07-11 07:46:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1124297#5
Date:
2025-12-30 07:17:24 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

CVE-2024-33871 fix
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-33871
introduced regression which causes OPVP Canon CAPT
libcanonc3pl.so proprietary driver to crash.

This is a known upstream issue which has been fixed in commit
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=b721bd1d9f1d2e9d2a0c2e9dbbb125ec658b2dcf

Please pick this patch into Debian 12 GhostScript.
The issue is nonexistent on Debian 13.