CVE-2024-29507 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 sometimes has a stack-based buffer overflow via the CIDFSubstPath and CIDFSubstFont parameters.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7745dbe24514
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29507
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29507
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7

History

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-120
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-07-03T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-12-03T15:41:47.471Z

Reserved: 2024-03-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2024-29507

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:10:55.452Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-07-03T19:15:03.240

Modified: 2024-12-03T16:15:21.343

Link: CVE-2024-29507

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-07-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-29507 - Bugzilla

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