cve-2010-4820
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-10-27 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 04:02
Severity ?
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2055.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/7
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51847
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771853
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51847
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771853
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