PT-2001-1199 · Gnu · Ghostscript

Published 2001-01-09 · Updated 2017-10-10 · CVE-2000-1163

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ghostscript versions prior to 5.10-16

Description The issue allows local users to execute commands as other users by placing a Trojan horse library into a directory from which another user executes ghostscript. This is due to ghostscript using an empty LD RUN PATH environmental variable to find libraries in the current directory.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.10-16, update to version 5.10-16 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-1163

Affected Products

Ghostscript

References · 7

• http://securityfocus.com/bid/1991 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2000/20001123 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-1163 · Security Note
• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000343 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5564 · Note
• http://calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-041.0.txt · Note
• http://linux-mandrake.com/en/security/MDKSA-2000-074.php3 · Note