A format string vulnerability in Ghostscript ≤ 10.03.0 which enables attackers to gain Remote Code Execution (#RCE) while also bypassing sandbox protections. CVE-2024-29510 has significant impact on web-applications and other services offering document conversion and preview functionalities as these often use Ghostscript under the hood. We recommend verifying whether your solution (indirectly) makes use of Ghostscript and if so, update it to the latest version!
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Here are some key findings:
LibreOfficeKit can be used for accessing LibreOffice functionality through C/C++. Typically this is used by third party components to reuse LibreOffice as a library to convert, view or otherwise interact with documents.
LibreOffice internally makes use of "curl" to fetch remote resources such as images hosted on webservers.