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CVE-2024-29506

Publication date 3 July 2024

Last updated 5 August 2024

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the pdfi_apply_filter() function via a long PDF filter name.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3
	23.10 mantic	Ignored
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

per Debian, introduced by: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=316c3a08269212f1005709da64efcb383f8f5ce0

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=77d

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6897-1
Ghostscript vulnerabilities
15 July 2024

Other references