CVE-2025-46646

Summary

CVE-2025-46646 is a newly identified vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript before version 10.05.0. This issue involves the mishandling of overlong UTF-8 encoding in the decode_utf8 function of base/gp_utf8.c. Notably, this vulnerability stems from an incomplete fix for the previous issue, CVE-2024-46954. This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by malicious actors to execute arbitrary code or cause denial-of-service conditions. System administrators are advised to update their Ghostscript installations as soon as possible to mitigate the risk.

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