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

CVE-2024-46952  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

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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version 3.1