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CVE-2010-2055

Disclosure Date: July 22, 2010 •
CVE-2010-2055
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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.

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General Information

Offensive Application
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OS
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Vulnerable Versions
n/a
Prerequisites
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Discovered By
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Vendors

  • artifex

Products

  • afpl ghostscript 6.0,
  • afpl ghostscript 6.01,
  • afpl ghostscript 6.50,
  • afpl ghostscript 7.00,
  • afpl ghostscript 7.03,
  • afpl ghostscript 7.04,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.00,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.11,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.12,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.13,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.14,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.50,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.51,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.52,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.53,
  • afpl ghostscript 8.54,
  • ghostscript fonts 6.0,
  • ghostscript fonts 8.11,
  • gpl ghostscript,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.01,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.15,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.50,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.51,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.54,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.56,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.57,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.60,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.61,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.62,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.63,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.64,
  • gpl ghostscript 8.70

References

Canonical
CVE-2010-2055 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2055)
Advisory
OSVDB-66247 (http://www.osvdb.org/66247)
SECUNIA-40532 (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
20100526 Re: Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup (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
GLSA-201412-17 (http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml)
ADV-2010-1757 (http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757)
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368
20100526 Re: Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup (http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474)
FEDORA-2010-10642 (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html)
20100522 Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup (http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433)
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350
SECUNIA-40452 (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
SECUNIA-40475 (http://secunia.com/advisories/40475)
FEDORA-2010-10660 (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html)
20100526 Re: Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup (http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472)
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339

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