CVE-2025-27831 — Classic Buffer Overflow in Ghostscript

CWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow8 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 51.45%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Artifex Ghostscript
Timeline
PublishedMar 25
Latest updateMar 27

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDartifex/ghostscript< 10.05.0
▶Debianartifex/ghostscript< 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u10+3

Patches

Patch: bugs.ghostscript.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
ghostscript vulnerabilities↗2025-03-27
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OSV
CVE-2025-27831: An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10↗2025-03-25
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GHSA
GHSA-x74r-f89v-3jw9: An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10↗2025-03-25
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CVEList
CVE-2025-27831: An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10↗2025-03-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Ghostscript vulnerabilities↗2025-03-27
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Red Hat
Ghostscript: Text buffer overflow with long characters↗2025-03-25
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Debian
CVE-2025-27831: ghostscript - An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The DOCXWRITE TXT...↗2025
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