CVE-2025-27831

Publication date 25 March 2025

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	24.10 oracular	Fixed 10.03.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.5
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.11
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=d6e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2025-27831

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Status

Patch details

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