CVE-2024-29508 (GCVE-0-2024-29508)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-03 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-17 13:50
VLAI
Summary
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based pointer disclosure (observable in a constructed BaseFont name) in the function pdf_base_font_alloc.
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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