Executive Summary
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Title | Ghostscript Heap Corruption in TrueType bytecode interpreter |
Informations | |||
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Name | VU#644319 | First vendor Publication | 2010-08-24 |
Vendor | VU-CERT | Last vendor Modification | 2010-12-06 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | M |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 9.3 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 10 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
Vulnerability Note VU#644319Ghostscript Heap Corruption in TrueType bytecode interpreterOverviewThe TrueType bytecode interpreter which is a part of Ghostscript is prone to heap corruption.I. DescriptionGhostscript includes a TrueType bytecode interpreter which is prone to an off by one bug which causes heap corruption. Further details can be found in the Ghostscript Bug #691044, Ghostscript r10602 commit statement and Toucan System's TSSA-2010-01 advisory.II. ImpactAn attacker may use a specially crafted document with a malformed TrueType font to cause a denial of service condition or execute arbitrary code.III. SolutionUpgrade to Ghostscript 8.71 or newer.Vendor Information
Referenceshttps://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/source/detail?r=10602&path=/trunk/gs/base/ttinterp.c Thanks to Jonathan Brossard for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Jared Allar.
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Original Source
Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/644319 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
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100 % | CWE-189 | Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
Date | Description |
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2012-07-30 | Name : CentOS Update for ghostscript CESA-2012:0095 centos5 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0095_ghostscript_centos5.nasl |
2012-07-30 | Name : CentOS Update for ghostscript CESA-2012:0095 centos6 File : nvt/gb_CESA-2012_0095_ghostscript_centos6.nasl |
2012-02-03 | Name : RedHat Update for ghostscript RHSA-2012:0095-01 File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2012_0095-01_ghostscript.nasl |
2012-01-09 | Name : Ubuntu Update for ghostscript USN-1317-1 File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1317_1.nasl |
2010-09-08 | Name : Ghostscript Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability File : nvt/gb_ghostscript_code_exec_vuln.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
Id | Description |
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67708 | Ghostscript TrueType Bytecode Interpreter Off-by-one Memory Corruption |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2014-12-15 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-17.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-09-04 | Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update. File : ala_ALAS-2012-42.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-07-12 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0095.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-08-01 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20120202_ghostscript_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-04-19 | Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch. File : suse_ghostscript-fonts-other-8063.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-02-03 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2012-0095.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-02-03 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2012-0095.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2012-01-05 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-1317-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |