Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801412
Category:	General
Title:	Ghostscript Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
Summary:	Ghostscript is prone to an arbitrary command execution vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: Ghostscript is prone to an arbitrary command execution vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: The flaw is due to: application reading certain postscript files in the current working directory although the '-P-' command line option is set. Vulnerability Impact: Successful exploitation allows the attackers to execute arbitrary postscript commands via the 'gs_init.ps' file, if a user is tricked into opening a file using the '-P-' option in an attacker controlled directory. Affected Software/OS: Ghostscript version 8.71 and prior Solution: Upgrade Ghostscript to version 9.0 or later. CVSS Score: 7.2 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-2055 20100522 Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433 20100526 Re: Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511476 40452 http://secunia.com/advisories/40452 40475 http://secunia.com/advisories/40475 40532 http://secunia.com/advisories/40532 66247 http://www.osvdb.org/66247 ADV-2010-1757 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757 FEDORA-2010-10642 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html FEDORA-2010-10660 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html GLSA-201412-17 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml RHSA-2012:0095 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html SUSE-SR:2010:014 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html 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=691339 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350 http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
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