CVE-2024-29509

Aliases:DEBIAN-CVE-2024-29509
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 4
Modified
Published: 03 Jul 2024, 00:00
Last modified:20 Mar 2025, 19:06

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
35/100
CVSS Score
8.8 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
1.45% LOW
1% probability -0.70%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Jul 2024, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
20 Mar 2025, 19:06
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based overflow when PDFPassword (e.g., for runpdf) has a \000 byte in the middle.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.45%• Percentile: 72%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-787•Out-of-bounds Write

    The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • artifex•ghostscript

    < 10.03.0

  • debian•ghostscript

    < 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | < 10.03.0~dfsg-1 | < 10.03.0~dfsg-1

References (4)