Directory Traversal Affecting ghostscript package, versions <10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.4


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2404-GHOSTSCRIPT-8310396
  • published13 Nov 2024
  • disclosed10 Nov 2024

Introduced: 10 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-46954  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:24.04 ghostscript to version 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.4 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:24.04 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

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