Lack of data validation - Path Traversal In ghostscript

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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