CVE-2024-29509

Publication date 3 July 2024

Last updated 5 August 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based overflow when PDFPassword (e.g., for runpdf) has a \000 byte in the middle.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ghostscript 24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needed
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

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Package Patch details
ghostscript

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