CVE-2025-46646 Affecting ghostscript package, versions <10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2404-GHOSTSCRIPT-9892548
  • published1 May 2025
  • disclosed26 Apr 2025

Introduced: 26 Apr 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:24.04 ghostscript to version 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:24.04 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