CVE-2025-27832 Affecting ghostscript-tools-printing package, versions <0:9.27-17.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX8-GHOSTSCRIPTTOOLSPRINTING-10598370
  • published4 Jul 2025
  • disclosed14 May 2025

Introduced: 14 May 2025

CVE-2025-27832  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:8 ghostscript-tools-printing to version 0:9.27-17.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2025:8421.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-tools-printing package and not the ghostscript-tools-printing package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1