ubuntu-cve-2024-29511
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2024-07-03 19:15
Modified
2026-04-22 07:48
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript",
            "binary_version": "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript-x",
            "binary_version": "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libgs9",
            "binary_version": "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libgs9-common",
            "binary_version": "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "ghostscript",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "9.54.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu2",
        "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu4",
        "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5",
        "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.1",
        "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.2",
        "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.3",
        "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.4",
        "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.5",
        "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.6",
        "9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.7"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "ghostscript",
            "binary_version": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libgs-common",
            "binary_version": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libgs10",
            "binary_version": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libgs10-common",
            "binary_version": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
        "name": "ghostscript",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/ghostscript@10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3?arch=source\u0026distro=noble"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "10.01.2~dfsg1-0ubuntu2",
        "10.01.2~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.1",
        "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu1",
        "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu2",
        "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu5",
        "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu6",
        "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7",
        "10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2024-29511",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:48:46Z",
  "published": "2024-07-03T19:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-29511"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29511"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6897-1"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-6897-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2024-29511"
  ]
}



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