Buffer Overflow Affecting ghostscript-debuginfo package, versions <0:8.70-24.34.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-GHOSTSCRIPTDEBUGINFO-9749532
  • published18 Apr 2025
  • disclosed25 Mar 2025

Introduced: 25 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2025-27836  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 ghostscript-debuginfo to version 0:8.70-24.34.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2025-1967.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-debuginfo package and not the ghostscript-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The BJ10V device has a Print buffer overflow in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1