CVE-2025-27832 Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.15


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-GHOSTSCRIPT-9485834
  • published28 Mar 2025
  • disclosed25 Mar 2025

Introduced: 25 Mar 2025

NewCVE-2025-27832  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 ghostscript to version 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.15 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 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