CVE-2010-2055 (GCVE-0-2010-2055)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2010-07-22 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 02:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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://www.osvdb.org/66247 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/40532 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583183 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583316 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511476 mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474 mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433 mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/40452 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/40475 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472 mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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