Directory Traversal Affecting ghostscript-doc package, versions <0:9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-GHOSTSCRIPTDOC-7681834
  • published14 Aug 2024
  • disclosed3 Jul 2024

Introduced: 3 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-29511  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 ghostscript-doc to version 0:9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2614.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-doc package and not the ghostscript-doc package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1