CVE-2025-27834

Public on 2025-03-24

Modified on 2025-03-24

Description

PDF interpreter - Guard against unsigned int overflow. A large Type 4 function definition can overflow the uint counter, causing the allocated buffer to be smaller than required.

Info: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708253
Patch: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=ef42ff180a04926e187d40faea40d4a43e304e3b (ghostpdl-10.05.0)

Severity

Important

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CVSS v3 Base Score

8.4

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory	Status
Amazon Linux 1	ghostscript			Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	ghostscript			Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2023	ghostscript	2025-04-14	ALAS2023-2025-927	Fixed

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	8.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	CVSSv3	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2025-27834 Mitre: CVE-2025-27834