Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-GHOSTSCRIPTTOOLSDVIPDF-8380923
- published 14 Nov 2024
- disclosed 10 Nov 2024
Introduced: 10 Nov 2024
New CVE-2024-46953 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 ghostscript-tools-dvipdf.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package and not the ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in base/gsdevice.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An integer overflow when parsing the filename format string (for the output filename) results in path truncation, and possible path traversal and code execution.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-46953
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707793
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=1f21a45df0fa3abec4cff12951022b192dda3c00
- https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2024/suse-su-20243942-1/
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