CVE-2024-29511 Affecting ghostscript package, versions <10.03.1-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-GHOSTSCRIPT-7541718
  • published18 Jul 2024
  • disclosed3 Jul 2024

Introduced: 3 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-29511  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi ghostscript to version 10.03.1-r0 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 Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi relevant fixed versions and status.

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.

CVSS Scores

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