1227379 – (CVE-2024-29509) VUL-0: CVE-2024-29509: ghostscript: heap buffer overflow via the PDFPassword parameter

Bug 1227379 (CVE-2024-29509) - VUL-0: CVE-2024-29509: ghostscript: heap buffer overflow via the PDFPassword parameter

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-29509: ghostscript: heap buffer overflow via the PDFPassword ...

Status:	IN_PROGRESS

Alias:	CVE-2024-29509

Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P3 - Medium Severity: Normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Johannes Meixner
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/412816/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-29509:5.4:(AV:...
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Reported:	2024-07-04 08:42 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified:	2024-07-16 08:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-07-04 08:42:26 UTC

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based overflow when PDFPassword (e.g., for runpdf) has a \000 byte in the middle.

References:
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707510
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-29509
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29509
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=917b3a71fb20748965254631199ad98210d6c2fb
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707662
https://codeanlabs.com/blog/research/cve-2024-29510-ghostscript-format-string-exploitation/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295628