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Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVE-2025-27832

High
9.8/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression Buffer Overflow for "contrib/japanese/gdevnpdl.c".

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  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The program copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

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