CVE-2024-46956

Publication date 30 October 2024

Last updated 5 December 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

An issue was discovered in psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Out-of-bounds data access in filenameforall can lead to arbitrary code execution.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ghostscript 24.10 oracular
Fixed 10.03.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.4
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.10
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
ghostscript

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7103-1
    • Ghostscript vulnerabilities
    • 12 November 2024
    • USN-7138-1
    • Ghostscript vulnerabilities
    • 5 December 2024

Other references