Upstream information

CVE-2010-4820 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.4
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 739737 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 ghostscript-library Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 ghostscript-library Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 ghostscript-library Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS ghostscript-library Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 ghostscript-library Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS ghostscript-library Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 ghostscript-library Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS ghostscript-library Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP1 ghostscript-library Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 ghostscript-library Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 ghostscript-library Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 ghostscript-library Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 ghostscript-library Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 19:03:13 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 18:33:24 2023