CVE-2024-29511

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-29511 ghostscript

References

advisory github.com
advisory nvd.nist.gov
web bugs.ghostscript.com
web git.ghostscript.com
web openwall.com