CVE-2024-33871

Publication date 9 May 2024

Last updated 8 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. contrib/opvp/gdevopvp.c allows arbitrary code execution via a custom Driver library, exploitable via a crafted PostScript document. This occurs because the Driver parameter for opvp (and oprp) devices can have an arbitrary name for a dynamic library; this library is then loaded.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	25.10 questing	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu9
	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~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 10.01.2~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.3
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.7
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.12
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=714

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6835-1
Ghostscript vulnerabilities
17 June 2024