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CVE-2025-46646

Published: Apr 26, 2025Updated: Jun 23, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-24
4.5MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 95.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0, decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c mishandles overlong UTF-8 encoding. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-46954.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:HPR:NUI:NS:CC:LI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-24

Affected Products

ghostscriptartifexOSS Libraries
GhostscriptArtifexOSS Libraries
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
АЛЬТ СП 10АО «ИВК»
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
FedoraFedora Project
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
artifexcommercialUSOSS Librariesaka artifex software
red hat inc.commercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat
ао «ивк»commercialRUOperating Systemsaka ivk
fedora projectoss-projectUSOperating Systemsaka fedora
and 4 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708311
bugs.ghostscript.com
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=f14ea81e6c3d2f51593f23cdf13c4679a18f1a3f
cgit.ghostscript.com
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=85df6937bcd8ae8edea7f24a5848e95833cfb1a7
cgit.ghostscript.com
and 9 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Apr 26, 2025
Last Updated
Jun 23, 2025

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