High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-29511
CVE-2024-29511
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.
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Affected products
11- osv-coords8 versionspkg:apk/wolfi/ghostscript-docpkg:apk/chainguard/ghostscriptpkg:apk/chainguard/ghostscript-devpkg:apk/wolfi/ghostscript-dbgpkg:apk/chainguard/ghostscript-dbgpkg:apk/chainguard/ghostscript-docpkg:apk/wolfi/ghostscript-devpkg:apk/wolfi/ghostscript
< 10.03.1-r0+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: < 10.03.1-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 10.03.1-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 10.03.1-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 10.03.1-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 10.03.1-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 10.03.1-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 10.03.1-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 10.03.1-r0
<10.03.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: <10.03.1
- (no CPE)
- cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <10.03.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
- git.ghostscript.comnvdBroken Link
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7nvdMailing List
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