9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2010-1869

Published: 12/05/2010 Updated: 10/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 935
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the parser function in GhostScript 8.70 and 8.64 allows context-dependent malicious users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PostScript file.

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artifex gpl ghostscript 8.70

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.64

Vendor Advisories

David Srbecky discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled debug logging If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program This issue only affected Ubuntu 904 and Ubuntu 910 The default compiler op ...
Several security issues have been discovered in Ghostscript, a GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a user processes a malformed PDF or Postscript file For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 862dfsg1-32lenny4 For the unstable distribution (sid), these pr ...

Exploits

########################################################################## # Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team (VDT) # # Rodrigo Rubira Branco - <rbranco *noSPAM* checkpointcom> # # # # GhostScript Stack Overflow # # # ################################################################# ...