GSD-2010-4820

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
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.
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CVE-2010-4820
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