ELSA-2012-0096 Moderate: Oracle Linux ghostscript security update
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(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
07/22/2010
07/25/2018
03/23/2012
04/11/2019
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ghostscript
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ghostscript-devel
- oracle-linux-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk
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