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Directory Traversal Affecting ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-GHOSTSCRIPTTOOLSDVIPDF-8380968
  • published 14 Nov 2024
  • disclosed 10 Nov 2024
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Introduced: 10 Nov 2024

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How 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 decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

7.8 high