CVE-2010-2055

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    CVE-2010-2055

    Published: 22 Jul 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: 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.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html, http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071, 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=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://www.osvdb.org/66247, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511476

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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