CVE-2024-46953
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2024-11-10 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
An issue was discovered in base/gsdevice.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An integer overflow when parsing the filename format string (for the output filename) results in path truncation, and possible path traversal and code execution.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.8 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | Required |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 10 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2025-7499 | 2025-06-30 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2025-4362 | 2025-04-30 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (ghostscript) | ELSA-2025-7422 | 2025-05-21 |
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