vulnerability
Artifex Ghostscript: (CVE-2024-29511) Directory traversal issue allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage.
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N) | 07/03/2024 | 07/08/2024 | 02/18/2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/03/2024
Added
07/08/2024
Modified
02/18/2025
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.
Solution
ghostscript-upgrade-10_03_1
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