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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.

Language: C

Severity Score

8.4

Related Resources (24)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511476

Url: http://www.osvdb.org/66247

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583316

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html

Url: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757

Url: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2055

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html

Url: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html

Url: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583183

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/40532

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/40452

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2055

Url: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/40475

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-2055

Severity Score

8.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Code

CWE-17

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.4
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:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2010-2055

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Date: July 21, 2010

Language: C

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Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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