CVE-2024-29508 Affecting ghostscript package, versions <9.52-150000.197.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-GHOSTSCRIPT-7575066
  • published31 Jul 2024
  • disclosed30 Jul 2024

Introduced: 30 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-29508  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 ghostscript to version 9.52-150000.197.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript package and not the ghostscript package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1