CVE-2010-2055 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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