Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update
The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed. Security Fix(es): * Ghostscript: NPDL device: Compression buffer overflow (CVE-2025-27832) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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Technical Summary
The Ghostscript suite, which translates PostScript code to bitmap formats for display or printing, contains a compression buffer overflow vulnerability in its NPDL device component (CVE-2025-27832). This vulnerability could lead to memory corruption issues. Red Hat Product Security has rated this vulnerability as moderate and released an update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and associated variants to remediate the issue. The advisory references updated packages ghostscript-9.27-17.el8_10 and related builds. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory, and no exploits are currently known in the wild.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability is a compression buffer overflow that could potentially allow an attacker to cause memory corruption when processing specially crafted PostScript or PDF documents using Ghostscript. This could lead to denial of service or other impacts depending on exploitation. However, no active exploitation has been reported. The impact is rated moderate by Red Hat.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official security update fixing this vulnerability in Ghostscript for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and related products. Users should apply the update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:8421 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate the issue. No additional mitigations are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update
Description
The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats so that the code can be displayed or printed. Security Fix(es): * Ghostscript: NPDL device: Compression buffer overflow (CVE-2025-27832) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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Technical Analysis
The Ghostscript suite, which translates PostScript code to bitmap formats for display or printing, contains a compression buffer overflow vulnerability in its NPDL device component (CVE-2025-27832). This vulnerability could lead to memory corruption issues. Red Hat Product Security has rated this vulnerability as moderate and released an update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and associated variants to remediate the issue. The advisory references updated packages ghostscript-9.27-17.el8_10 and related builds. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory, and no exploits are currently known in the wild.
Potential Impact
The vulnerability is a compression buffer overflow that could potentially allow an attacker to cause memory corruption when processing specially crafted PostScript or PDF documents using Ghostscript. This could lead to denial of service or other impacts depending on exploitation. However, no active exploitation has been reported. The impact is rated moderate by Red Hat.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an official security update fixing this vulnerability in Ghostscript for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and related products. Users should apply the update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:8421 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to remediate the issue. No additional mitigations are indicated by the vendor advisory.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:8421
- Cve Count
- 1
Threat ID: 6a3da1cf4853345fc1824455
Added to database: 06/25/2026, 21:46:55 UTC
Last enriched: 06/25/2026, 22:08:18 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:49 UTC
Views: 15
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