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.

The version of ghostscript installed on the remote host is prior to 9.54.0-9. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2614 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-692 advisory.

    Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the pdfi_apply_filter() function     via a long PDF filter name. (CVE-2024-29506)

    Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 sometimes has a stack-based buffer overflow via the CIDFSubstPath and     CIDFSubstFont parameters. (CVE-2024-29507)

    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 10.03.0 has a heap-based overflow when PDFPassword (e.g., for runpdf) has a     \000 byte in the middle. (CVE-2024-29509)

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6897-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain long PDF filter names. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29506)

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain API parameters. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29507)

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain BaseFont names. An attacker could use this     issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2024-29508)

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain PDF passwords that contained NULL bytes. An     attacker could use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly     execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29509)

    It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain certain file paths when doing OCR. An     attacker could use this issue to read arbitrary files and write error messages to arbitrary files. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29511)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
205720	Amazon Linux 2 : ghostscript (ALAS-2024-2614)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
205084	Amazon Linux 2023 : ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf (ALAS2023-2024-692)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
202378	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Ghostscript vulnerabilities (USN-6897-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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