Buffer Overflow Affecting ghostscript package, versions [0,10.04.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-8366383
  • published11 Nov 2024
  • disclosed10 Nov 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Nov 2024

NewCVE-2024-46952  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 10.04.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow through the handling of a PDF XRef streams. This is due to missing sanitization of the W array values in Xref streams.

CVSS Scores

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