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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-29511: Security patch for ghostscript (ALAS-2024-2614)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-29511: Security patch for ghostscript (ALAS-2024-2614)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/03/2024
Created
08/14/2024
Added
08/14/2024
Modified
08/14/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-cups
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-doc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libgs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libgs-devel

References

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