{
  "cveId": "CVE-2025-27837",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27837",
  "summary": "CVE-2025-27837 is fixed in 14 products on 1 platform, first by ALAS2023-2025-927, released April 9, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "ghostscript: Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities:\nCVE-2025-27837:\n\tPatch to...",
  "description": "Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities:\nCVE-2025-27837:\n\tPatch to error check UTF-8 conversions. Fixed in ghostpdl-10.05.0 by adding a check on the value returned by the gp_utf8_to_uint16 function.\n\nInfo: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708238\nPatch: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=dbb9f2b11f820697e77863523a8d835ab040e5d1 (ghostpdl-10.05.0)\n\nCVE-2025-27836:\n\tPotential print buffer overflow. Fixed in ghostpdl-10.05.0 by implementing stricter buffer length validation.\n\nInfo: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708192\nPatch: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=8b6d19b2b4079da6863ef25f2370f25d4b054919 (ghostpdl-10.05.0)\n\nCVE-2025-27835:\n\tFix confusion between bytes and shorts. Data is being copied from a string in multiple of shorts, rather than multiple of bytes, leading to both a read (probably benign, given the memory manager) and write buffer overflow.\n\nInfo: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708131\nPatch: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=de900010a6f2310d1fd54e99eeba466693da0e13 (ghostpdl-10.05.0)\n\nCVE-2025-27834:\n\tPDF interpreter - Guard against unsigned int overflow. A large Type 4 function definition can overflow the uint counter, causing the allocated buffer to be smaller than required.\n\nInfo: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708253\nPatch: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=ef42ff180a04926e187d40faea40d4a43e304e3b (ghostpdl-10.05.0)",
  "published": "2025-04-09T19:43:00Z",
  "severity": "important",
  "epss": 0.00617,
  "epssPercentile": 0.49844,
  "priority": "High",
  "priorityTier": 3,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "fixes": [
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      "fix": "ALAS2023-2025-927",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/alas2023-2025-927",
      "released": "2025-04-09T19:43:00Z"
    },
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    },
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  "dataAsOf": "2026-11-10T01:44:33Z",
  "attribution": {
    "text": "Data: Patchblox Patch Radar",
    "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar",
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