PT-2014-2083 · Artifex+2 · Ghostscript+2

Ramon De C Valle · Published 2012-02-02 · Updated 2014-11-02 · CVE-2010-4820

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ghostscript version 8.62

Description The issue allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse PostScript library file in the Encoding/ directory under the current working directory.

Recommendations For Ghostscript version 8.62, consider restricting access to the Encoding/ directory to prevent the execution of arbitrary PostScript code until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the current working directory for PostScript library files. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_0095

CVE-2010-4820

RHSA-2012:0095

RHSA-2012:0096

RHSA-2012_0095

RHSA-2012_0096

Affected Products

Centos

Ghostscript

Red Hat

References · 30

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4054 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4820 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3743 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4820 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4820 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-0095.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2055 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4820 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-4820 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-February/067894.html · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/51847 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2055 · Note