Path traversal in Ghostscript - CVE-2024-29511

Vulnerability identifier: #VU93816

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-29511

CWE-ID: CWE-22

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences when Tesseract is used for OCR. A remote attacker can view arbitrary files on the system.

Ghostscript
Ubuntu
openEuler
ghostscript (Ubuntu package)
libgs9 (Ubuntu package)
ghostscript
ghostscript-debuginfo
ghostscript-debugsource
ghostscript-devel
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf
ghostscript-help
libgs10 (Ubuntu package)

Install update from vendor's website.

Ghostscript - update to 10.03.1
ghostscript (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.13, 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9, 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3
libgs9 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.13, 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9
ghostscript - update to 9.55.0-23
ghostscript-debuginfo - update to 9.55.0-23
ghostscript-debugsource - update to 9.55.0-23
ghostscript-devel - update to 9.55.0-23
ghostscript-tools-dvipdf - update to 9.55.0-23
ghostscript-help - update to 9.55.0-23
libgs10 (Ubuntu package) - update to 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3

• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d4cfdc1a44
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7

• Remote code execution in Artifex Ghostscript
• Ubuntu update for ghostscript
• openEuler 22.03 LTS SP4 update for ghostscript