CVE-2025-27836 - Vulnerability Details

Vendors	Products
Artifex	Ghostscript

Link	Providers
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708192
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27836
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27836

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: device: Print buffer overflow
Weaknesses		CWE-120
References		https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27836 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27836
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Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The BJ10V device has a Print buffer overflow in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c.
References		https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708192

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