CVE-2024-29511 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2024-29511: Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.

Affects 1 Linux release across 1 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2024-29511 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

ghostscript→ fixed in10.03.0~dfsg-1urgency: unimportant
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y ghostscript
```

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