Description
An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.
Published: 2025-03-25
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4118-1 ghostscript security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5888-1 ghostscript security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-8093 An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7378-1 Ghostscript vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7623-1 Ghostscript vulnerabilities
History

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Thu, 15 May 2025 06:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0

Wed, 14 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Artifex
Artifex ghostscript
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Artifex
Artifex ghostscript

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Ghostscript: NPDL device: Compression buffer overflow
Weaknesses CWE-120
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

threat_severity

Moderate


Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:45:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Artifex Ghostscript
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-03T19:46:34.348Z

Reserved: 2025-03-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-27832

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-03-26T13:39:14.809Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2025-03-25T21:15:42.570

Modified: 2025-11-03T20:18:07.937

Link: CVE-2025-27832

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-03-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-27832 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses