Medium: ghostscript

Issue Overview:

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based pointer disclosure (observable in a constructed BaseFont name) in the function pdf_base_font_alloc. (CVE-2024-29508)

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd. (CVE-2024-29511)

Affected Packages:

ghostscript

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update ghostscript to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.i686  
  
noarch:  
    ghostscript-doc-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.noarch  
  
src:  
    ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ghostscript-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    libgs-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    libgs-devel-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    ghostscript-gtk-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    ghostscript-cups-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    ghostscript-debuginfo-9.54.0-9.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2024-29508, CVE-2024-29511

Mitre: CVE-2024-29508, CVE-2024-29511