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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.osvdb.org/66247 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40532 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583183 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583316 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511476 ↗
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757 ↗
- http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433 ↗
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40452 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html ↗
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40475 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472 ↗
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339 ↗