Heap-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libgs-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBGSDEVEL-7421368
  • published4 Jul 2024
  • disclosed3 Jul 2024

Introduced: 3 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-29509  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (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 libgs-devel package and not the libgs-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

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