CVE-2025-27836 Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.11


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2204-GHOSTSCRIPT-9485763
  • published28 Mar 2025
  • disclosed25 Mar 2025

Introduced: 25 Mar 2025

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:22.04 ghostscript to version 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.11 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:22.04 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