| Name | CVE-2024-33869 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. Path traversal and command execution can occur (via a crafted PostScript document) because of path reduction in base/gpmisc.c. For example, restrictions on use of %pipe% can be bypassed via the aa/../%pipe%command# output filename. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5692-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ghostscript (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb8u13 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u9 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u13 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u10 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u9 | fixed |
| bookworm | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.04.0~dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - ghostscript <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)
https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/gs10.03.1/News.html
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=5ae2e320d69a7d0973011796bd388cd5befa1a43 (ghostpdl-10.03.1)
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=f5336e5b4154f515ac83bc5b9eba94302e6618d4 (ghostpdl-10.03.1)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707691
[stretch] - ghostscript <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)
[jessie] - ghostscript <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)