Vulnerability CVE-2010-4820
Published: 2014-10-26   Modified: 2014-10-27

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-94

 (Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection'))

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.4/10
6.4/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Ghostscript -> Ghostscript 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771853
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51847
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/7
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
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