CVE-2024-29508

Publication date 3 July 2024

Last updated 8 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	25.04 plucky	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu9
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu9
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.13
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.18+esm4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm9

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=ff1 Upstream: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=147e5abd63d82c9ec3587c6f67a5d8ec7dc38e61 Upstream: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=d084021e06ba1caa1373fbbcf24a8510f43830ab

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.3 · Low
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N