CVE-2025-46646

Published: April 29, 2025Last modified: May 23, 2025

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.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.5
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

Status

Product	Release	Package	Status
Alpaquita Linux	23 LTS	ghostscript	Fixed (10.01.2-r5)
Alpaquita Linux	Stream	ghostscript	Fixed (10.05.0-r0)

References

How to Fix Liberica NIK Not Starting on macOS Catalina and Later

If you use macOS Catalina and later you may encounter the issue that prevents Liberica NIK from starting. To fix it, run the following:

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine path/to/graalvm/folder/

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