vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-6897-1 (CVE-2024-29511): Ghostscript vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N) | Jul 3, 2024 | Jul 16, 2024 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 3, 2024
Added
Jul 16, 2024
Modified
Aug 18, 2025
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.
Solutions
ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscriptubuntu-upgrade-libgs10ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9
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