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
	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

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=774

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)