CVE-2024-46952

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-11-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

An issue was discovered in pdf/pdf_xref.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is a buffer overflow during handling of a PDF XRef stream (related to W array values).

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript: before 10.04.0 — fixed in 10.04.0
Debian Linux: 12.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Artifex Ghostscript 10.04.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708001
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=b1f0827c30f59a2dcbc8a39e42cace7a1de35f7f
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html

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