The (1) pj-gs.sh, (2) ps2epsi, (3) pv.sh, and (4) sysvlp.sh scripts in the ESP Ghostscript (espgs) package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and other operating systems, allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

ghostscript before 6.53 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by using .locksafe or .setsafe to reset the current pagedevice.

ghostscript before 6.51 allows local users to read and write arbitrary files as the 'lp' user via the file operator, even with -dSAFER enabled.

ghostscript before 5.10-16 uses an empty LD_RUN_PATH environmental variable to find libraries in the current directory, which could allow local users to execute commands as other users by placing a Trojan horse library into a directory from which another user executes ghostscript.

ghostscript before 5.10-16 allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack.

The ghostscript command with the -dSAFER option allows remote attackers to execute commands.