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vulnerabilityCVE-2024-29511
Name
CVE-2024-29511
Source
NVD ( link)Debian ( link)
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.
Published Date
Updated Date
Workaround
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Analysis#


Affected Component
Analysis
ghostscript
Patched

Vulnerability Ratings#


7.5
CVSSv31
NaN
other

Others affected components#


Name
Project
Project Version
Version
Status
buildroot
2025.02.x
10.07.0
Not Affected
buildroot
master
10.07.0
Not Affected
yocto
master
10.07.1
Not Affected
yocto
scarthgap
10.05.1
Not Affected

Resolved with patches#


ghostscript (yocto:kirkstone)

#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
Bug 707510(5)2: The original fix was overly aggressive
Chris Liddell <chris.liddell@artifex.com>
CVE-2024-29511
2
Bug 707510(5): Reject OCRLanguage changes after SAFER
Chris Liddell <chris.liddell@artifex.com>
CVE-2024-29511