Memory Corruption and Sandbox Bypass Vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript

CVE-2024-29510

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Key Information

Vendor: Artifex
Vendor: CVE Published:; 3 July 2024

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Summary

The vulnerability CVE-2024-29510 affects Artifex Ghostscript before version 10.03.1, allowing memory corruption and sandbox bypass through format string injection with a uniprint device. This vulnerability poses a medium risk and has the potential to allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. It affects Linux operating systems, as well as Fedora Linux, SUSE Linux, and Open Source Ghostscript. There is no evidence of exploitation of this vulnerability by ransomware groups at the moment. Various security advisories and updates have been released by different vendors to address this vulnerability, and affected users are advised to install the relevant patches promptly.

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