CVE-2025-27832

A flaw was found in Artifex Ghostscript. The NPDL device has a compression buffer overflow for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c.

It was discovered that OpenJPEG, vendored in Ghostscript did not correctly handle large image files. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Thomas Rinsma discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle printing certain variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle loading certain libraries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Vasileios Flengas discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle argument sanitization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu 25.04.