CVE-2025-46646 Affecting ghostscript-dbg package, versions <10.05.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-GHOSTSCRIPTDBG-13327445
  • published6 Oct 2025
  • disclosed26 Apr 2025

Introduced: 26 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-46646  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest ghostscript-dbg to version 10.05.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-dbg package and not the ghostscript-dbg package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1