Buffer overflow in Artifex Afpl Ghostscript
CVE-2010-4054
The gs_type2_interpret function in Ghostscript allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted font data in a compressed data stream, aka bug 691043.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (84.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 84.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Artifex Afpl Ghostscript — versions 8.54, 9.0, 8.52
- Artifex Ghostscript Fonts — versions 8.11, 6.0
- Artifex Gpl Ghostscript — versions 8.60, 8.50, 8.64
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml (vendor-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/538191 (US Government Resource, Patch, third-party-advisory)
- ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2010-January/010333.html (mailing-list, Patch)