Name | CVE-2024-46954 |
Description | An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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ghostscript (PTS) | bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u8 | fixed |
| bookworm | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.04.0~dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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ghostscript | source | bullseye | (not affected) | | | |
ghostscript | source | bookworm | (not affected) | | | |
ghostscript | source | (unstable) | 10.04.0~dfsg-1 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - ghostscript <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[bullseye] - ghostscript <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788
Introduced by: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=e15f8ff9db30c4e780973cef79e162baed6047c6 (ghostpdl-10.01.0rc1)
Introduced when making previously windows specific functions generically available.
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=282f691f5e57b6bf55ba51ad8c2be2cce8edb938 (ghostpdl-10.04.0)