CVE-2024-29511

Publication date 3 July 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

while Debian doesn’t build Tesseract support, it looks like Ubuntu does in fact have Tesseract support in jammy+ second commit is required to prevent regression in pdf2ps

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=3d4 Upstream: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=638159c43dbb48425a187d244ec288d252d0ecf4

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6897-1
Ghostscript vulnerabilities
15 July 2024