SUSE: 2025:1118-1 important: ghostscript buffer overflow
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April 2, 2025
* bsc#1240075 * bsc#1240077 * bsc#1240080 * bsc#1240081
Summary
## This update for ghostscript fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-27831: Fixed text buffer overflow in DOCXWRITE TXTWRITE device via long characters to devices/vector/doc_common.c (bsc#1240075) * CVE-2025-27832: Fixed compression buffer overflow in NPDL device for contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c (bsc#1240077) * CVE-2025-27835: Fixed buffer overflow occurs when converting glyphs to Unicode in psi/zbfont.c (bsc#1240080) * CVE-2025-27836: Fixed Print buffer overflow in BJ10V device in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c (bsc#1240081) ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS
Topics Covered
References
* bsc#1240075
* bsc#1240077
* bsc#1240080
* bsc#1240081
Cross-
* CVE-2025-27831
* CVE-2025-27832
* CVE-2025-27835
* CVE-2025-27836
CVSS scores:
* CVE-2025-27831 ( SUSE ): 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
* CVE-2025-27831 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
* CVE-2025-27832 ( SUSE ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
* CVE-2025-27832 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
* CVE-2025-27835 ( SUSE ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
* CVE-2025-27835 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
* CVE-2025-27836 ( SUSE ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
* CVE-2025-27836 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:1118-1
Release Date: 2025-04-02T14:49:11Z
Rating: important
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