CVE-2025-27833

NameCVE-2025-27833
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. A buffer overflow occurs for a long TTF font name to pdf/pdf_fmap.c.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-5888-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ghostscript (PTS)bullseye9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7fixed
bullseye (security)9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u10fixed
bookworm10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6vulnerable
bookworm (security)10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u7fixed
trixie, sid10.05.0~dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ghostscriptsourcebullseye(not affected)
ghostscriptsourcebookworm10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u7DSA-5888-1
ghostscriptsource(unstable)10.05.0~dfsg-1

Notes

[bullseye] - ghostscript <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708259
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=a82738e387bbb44c7c4698404776dca53f62b158 (ghostpdl-10.05.0)
Introduced by: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=316c3a08269212f1005709da64efcb383f8f5ce0 (ghostpdl-9.55.0rc1)

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