Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GHOSTSCRIPT-7420324
  • published4 Jul 2024
  • disclosed3 Jul 2024

Introduced: 3 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-29509  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by Debian.

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based overflow when PDFPassword (e.g., for runpdf) has a \000 byte in the middle.