Code Injection in Ghostscript - CVE-2010-4820
Published: October 27, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41197
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-4820
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Artifex Software, Inc.
Affected software:
Ghostscript
Ghostscript
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2010-4820
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51847
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771853