Security update for ghostscript

Announcement ID:	SUSE-SU-2025:1118-1
Release Date:	2025-04-02T14:49:11Z
Rating:	important
References:	bsc#1240075 bsc#1240077 bsc#1240080 bsc#1240081
Cross-References:	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
Affected Products:	SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves four vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

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
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2025-1118=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-1118=1

Package List:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • ghostscript-devel-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-debugsource-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-x11-9.52-23.89.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64)
  • ghostscript-devel-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-x11-debuginfo-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-debuginfo-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-debugsource-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-9.52-23.89.1
  • ghostscript-x11-9.52-23.89.1

References:

• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27831.html
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27832.html
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27835.html
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-27836.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240075
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240077
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240080
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240081