Artifex Ghostscript up to 10.04.0 NPDL Device gdevnpdl.c buffer overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Artifex Ghostscript. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c of the component NPDL Device. Performing a manipulation results in buffer overflow. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-27832. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Artifex Ghostscript. This affects an unknown code of the file contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c of the component NPDL Device. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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

The advisory is shared at bugs.ghostscript.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-27832 since 03/07/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 233372 (Debian dsa-5888 : ghostscript - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 10.05.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (233372) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0556). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Fedora Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Gentoo Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• Open Source Ghostscript

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Type

• Document Processing Software

Vendor

• Artifex

Name

• Ghostscript

Version

• 8.63
• 8.70
• 9.20
• 9.21
• 9.21rc1
• 9.22
• 9.23
• 9.24
• 9.25
• 9.26
• 9.50
• 9.51
• 9.52
• 9.53.0
• 10.0.3.0
• 10.03.0
• 10.03.1
• 10.04.0

License

• free

Website

• Vendor: https://artifex.com/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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