CVE-2025-27836 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2025-27836: An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The BJ10V device has a Print buffer overflow in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c.

Affects 8 Linux releases across 8 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2025-27836 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

ghostscript→ fixed in9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u10urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y ghostscript
```

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

ghostscript→ fixed in10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u7urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y ghostscript
```

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

ghostscript→ fixed in10.05.0~dfsg-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y ghostscript
```

Alpine v3.20

Source: Alpine secdb

ghostscript→ fixed in10.05.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade ghostscript

Alpine v3.21

Source: Alpine secdb

ghostscript→ fixed in10.05.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade ghostscript

Alpine edge

Source: Alpine secdb

ghostscript→ fixed in10.05.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade ghostscript

Alpine v3.18

Source: Alpine secdb

ghostscript→ fixed in10.05.0

apk update && apk add --upgrade ghostscript

Alpine v3.19

Source: Alpine secdb

ghostscript→ fixed in10.05.0-r0

apk update && apk add --upgrade ghostscript

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