CVE-2010-2055

Description

Ghostscript 8.71 and earlier reads initialization files from the current working directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript commands via a Trojan horse file, related to improper support for the -P- option to the gs program, as demonstrated using gs_init.ps, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4820.

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583183

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583316

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html

http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368

http://secunia.com/advisories/40452

http://secunia.com/advisories/40475

http://secunia.com/advisories/40532

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml

http://www.osvdb.org/66247

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511476

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2