🛡️ CVE-2025-46646 on Debian — ghostscript

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-46646 as tracked by Debian, for the package ghostscript. The fix is available in version 10.05.0~dfsg-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-46646 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ghostscript (fixed in 10.05.0~dfsg-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 26 April 2025 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2025-46646 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-04-26
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ghostscript — 10.05.0~dfsg-1

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