Fedora 41 : ghostscript (2025-d5e2376a90)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237212

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-d5e2376a90 advisory.

CVE-2025-46646 ghostscript: Mishandling of Overlong UTF-8 Encoding in decode_utf8() (fedora#2362639, fedora#2362446)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected ghostscript package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237212

File Name: fedora_2025-d5e2376a90.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 5/24/2025

Updated: 5/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46646

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ghostscript, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-46646

FEDORA: 2025-d5e2376a90

IAVB: 2025-B-0043

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