vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-29511: Medium priority package update for ghostscript

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 3, 2024
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

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.
A vulnerability was found in Ghostscript. When Tesseract is used for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), a directory traversal issue allows arbitrary file reading and writing of error messages to arbitrary files via the  OCRLanguage. This issue causes an arbitrary file read/write through the Tesseract configuration.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscriptamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-docamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-gtkamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-tools-dvipdfamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-tools-fontsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-tools-printingamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-x11amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-ghostscript-x11-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libgsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libgs-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libgs-devel
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