CVE-2025-27831 - Vulnerability Details

Vendors	Products
Artifex	Ghostscript

Link	Providers
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708132
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27831
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27831

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Artifex Artifex ghostscript
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::
Vendors & Products		Artifex Artifex ghostscript

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		Ghostscript: Text buffer overflow with long characters
Weaknesses		CWE-120
References		https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27831 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27831
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Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The DOCXWRITE TXTWRITE device has a text buffer overflow via long characters to devices/vector/doc_common.c.
References		https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708132

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