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Vulnerability · Published Nov 10, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-46955

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity out-of-bounds read in the ghostscript package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 77.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in psi/zcolor.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is an out-of-bounds read when reading color in Indexed color space.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20ghostscript10.04.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-46955
Alpine:v3.21ghostscript10.04.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-46955
Alpine:v3.22ghostscript10.04.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-46955
Alpine:v3.23ghostscript10.04.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-46955
Alpine:v3.24ghostscript10.04.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-46955
Debian:12ghostscript10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46955
Debian:12ghostscript10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6DSA-5808-1
Debian:13ghostscript10.04.0~dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46955
Debian:14ghostscript10.04.0~dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46955
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSghostscript9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.10USN-7103-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSghostscript9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.10UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSghostscript10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.4UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46955
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSghostscript10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.4USN-7103-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-125 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References