ghostscript: Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbit...
CVE-2024-29511 is fixed in 20 products on 1 platform, first by ghostscript 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9, released July 3, 2024. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.
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.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| ghostscript · Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 10.03.0~dfsg-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2024-29511 | Jul 3, 2024 |
| ghostscript · Debian 14 | 10.03.0~dfsg-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2024-29511 | Jul 3, 2024 |
| ghostscript · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) | 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | ghostscript 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | Jul 3, 2024 |
| ghostscript · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) | 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3 | ghostscript 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3 | Jul 3, 2024 |
| ghostscript · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-debuginfo · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-debugsource · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-doc · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-gtk · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-tools-dvipdf · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-tools-fonts · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-tools-printing · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-x · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) | 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | ghostscript-x 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | Jul 3, 2024 |
| ghostscript-x11 · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| ghostscript-x11-debuginfo · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| libgs · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| libgs-common · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) | 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3 | libgs-common 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3 | Jul 3, 2024 |
| libgs-debuginfo · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| libgs-devel · amzn 2023 | 9.56.1-7.amzn2023.0.9 | ALAS2023-2024-692 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| libgs10 · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) | 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3 | libgs10 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3 | Jul 3, 2024 |
| libgs10-common · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) | 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3 | libgs10-common 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3 | Jul 3, 2024 |
| libgs9 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) | 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | libgs9 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | Jul 3, 2024 |
| libgs9-common · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) | 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | libgs9-common 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | Jul 3, 2024 |
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