SB2025051948 - Fedora 41 update for ghostscript
Published: May 19, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2025051948
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-46646)
CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of overlong UTF-8 encoding in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted file to the application and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU99620 (CVE-2024-46954).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.