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Ubuntu: USN-7103-1 (CVE-2024-46953): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-7103-1 (CVE-2024-46953): Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/10/2024
Created
11/14/2024
Added
11/13/2024
Modified
11/15/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in base/gsdevice.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An integer overflow when parsing the filename format string (for the output filename) results in path truncation, and possible path traversal and code execution.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ghostscript
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgs10
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgs9

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