cve/2024/CVE-2024-29511.md

### [CVE-2024-29511](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-29511)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.