Description

An issue was discovered in base/gsdevice.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An integer overflow when parsing the filename format string (for the output filename) results in path truncation, and possible path traversal and code execution.

INFO

Published Date :

2024-11-10T00:00:00.000Z

Last Modified :

2025-11-03T22:19:52.060Z

Source :

mitre
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-46953 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Artifex
  • Ghostscript
Debian
  • Debian Linux
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
Suse
  • Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
  • Linux Enterprise Server
  • Linux Enterprise Server For Sap
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-46953.

URL Resource
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707793 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=1f21a45df0fa3abec4cff12951022b192dda3c00 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00023.html cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46953 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-46953 cve-icon
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2024/suse-su-20243942-1/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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