Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ghostscript-x11 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published4 Jul 2024
- disclosed3 Jul 2024
Introduced: 3 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-29508 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-x11 package and not the ghostscript-x11 package as distributed by RHEL.
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based pointer disclosure (observable in a constructed BaseFont name) in the function pdf_base_font_alloc.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-29508
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00022.html
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=ff1013a0ab485b66783b70145e342a82c670906a
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7