Name | CVE-2024-29509 |
Description | Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based overflow when PDFPassword (e.g., for runpdf) has a \000 byte in the middle. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-5760-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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ghostscript (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bookworm | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.04.0~dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bullseye] - ghostscript <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7
Introduced with: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=316c3a08269212f1005709da64efcb383f8f5ce0 (ghostpdl-9.55.0rc1)
Fixed by: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=917b3a71fb20748965254631199ad98210d6c2fb (ghostpdl-10.03.0)