CVE-2025-27832

Publication date 25 March 2025

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

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

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ghostscript 25.04 plucky
Not affected
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
Fixed 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.15
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ghostscript

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7378-1
    • Ghostscript vulnerabilities
    • 27 March 2025

Other references