| Name | CVE-2024-29510 |
| Description | Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1 allows memory corruption, and SAFER sandbox bypass, via format string injection with a uniprint device. |
| 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-5692-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4 | fixed |
| trixie | 10.03.1~dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid | 10.03.1~dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - ghostscript <ignored> (fix requires API functions introduced in 9.50)
https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/gs10.03.1/News.html
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=3b1735085ecef20b29e8db3416ab36de93e86d1f (ghostpdl-10.03.1)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707662
API functions used by fixing commit were introduced in:
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=9de16a6637b73e35f79d2d622de403b24e6502f2
https://codeanlabs.com/blog/research/cve-2024-29510-ghostscript-format-string-exploitation/