CVE-2025-27832 Affecting ghostscript-x11 package, versions <0:9.27-17.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-GHOSTSCRIPTX11-10298842
  • published4 Jun 2025
  • disclosed25 Mar 2025

Introduced: 25 Mar 2025

CVE-2025-27832  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 ghostscript-x11 to version 0:9.27-17.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2025-8421.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-x11 package and not the ghostscript-x11 package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle: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

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