Medium severity4.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 26, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2025-46646
CVE-2025-46646
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.
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Affected products
5cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <10.05.0
- (no CPE)range: <10.05.0
- (no CPE)range: 0
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 10.06.0-160000.1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 10.06.0-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 10.05.1-1.1
Patches
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References
2- cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/nvdPatch
- bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
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