Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting ghostscript-gtk package, versions <0:8.70-11.el6_2.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE6-GHOSTSCRIPTGTK-2463176
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed27 Oct 2014

Introduced: 27 Oct 2014

CVE-2010-4820  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:6 ghostscript-gtk to version 0:8.70-11.el6_2.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2012-0095.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-gtk package and not the ghostscript-gtk package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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