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OESA-2025-1400 (CVE-2025-27831)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2025-04-11 11:08 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:08 – Source website

Summary

ghostscript security update

Details

Ghostscript is an interpreter for PostScript™ and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript consists of a PostScript interpreter layer, and a graphics library.

Security Fix(es):

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The DOCXWRITE TXTWRITE device has a text buffer overflow via long characters to devices/vector/doc_common.c.(CVE-2025-27831)

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27831	ADVISORY

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          "ghostscript-debuginfo-9.56.1-16.oe2403.aarch64.rpm",
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  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:08:29Z",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "ghostscript security update",
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    "CVE-2025-27831"
  ]
}

CVE-2025-27831 (GCVE-0-2025-27831)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-25 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:46

Summary

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The DOCXWRITE TXTWRITE device has a text buffer overflow via long characters to devices/vector/doc_common.c.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-26 13:39 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708132
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

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