CVE-2024-29509

Publication date 3 July 2024

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

per Debian, introduced by: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=316c3a08269212f1005709da64efcb383f8f5ce0

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=917