Summary
It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PS
files. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2024-46951, CVE-2024-46953, CVE-2024-46955, CVE-2024-46956)
It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PDF
files. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10.
(CVE-2024-46952)
It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled parsing certain PS
files. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly bypass file path validation.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10.
(CVE-2024-46954)
Fixed packages 3
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS | ghostscript | 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14 |
| Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS | ghostscript | 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.10 |
| Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS | ghostscript | 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.4 |
Vulnerabilities 6
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High 8.4
An issue was discovered in pdf/pdf_xref.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is a buffer overflow during hand…
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High 8.4
An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding…
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High 7.8
An issue was discovered in psi/zcolor.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An unchecked Implementation pointer in P…
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High 7.8
An issue was discovered in base/gsdevice.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An integer overflow when parsing the …
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High 7.8
An issue was discovered in psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Out-of-bounds data access in filenamefora…
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Medium 5.5
An issue was discovered in psi/zcolor.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is an out-of-bounds read when read…