CVE-2024-29507

Publication date 3 July 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 sometimes has a stack-based buffer overflow via the CIDFSubstPath and CIDFSubstFont parameters.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

per Debian, introduced by: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=316c3a08269212f1005709da64efcb383f8f5ce0 looks like this also introduced it: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=9ebc7de2f18bb8b899f9298bdbc6b1a8fb66c6b5

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=774

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)