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CVE-2010-2055

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Date: July 21, 2010

Ghostscript 8.71 and earlier reads initialization files from the current working directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript commands via a Trojan horse file, related to improper support for the -P- option to the gs program, as demonstrated using gs_init.ps, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4820.

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Related Resources (24)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511476
http://www.osvdb.org/66247
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583316
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2055
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583183
http://secunia.com/advisories/40532
http://secunia.com/advisories/40452
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2055
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368
http://secunia.com/advisories/40475
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-2055

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CWE-17

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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