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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-29511

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-29511 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13ghostscript0, 0
Debian:12ghostscript0, 10.0.0~dfsg-11, 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u1
Debian:11ghostscript10.0.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.0
Debian:14ghostscript0, 0

Timeline

  • Jul 3, 2024 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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