CVE-2025-46646

Publication date 26 April 2025

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 10.03.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.3
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=f14 Upstream: ?id=85d

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE-2025-46646

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Status

Patch details

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References

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