Bug 582300 – CVE-2010-1869 ghostscript: PS parser buffer overflow in token scanner

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Bug 582300 - (CVE-2010-1869) CVE-2010-1869 ghostscript: PS parser buffer overflow in token scanner

Summary:	CVE-2010-1869 ghostscript: PS parser buffer overflow in token scanner

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2010-1869

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	582308
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Reported:	2010-04-14 11:30 EDT by Vincent Danen
Modified:	2015-10-15 17:11 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2010-05-12 04:06:25 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Ghostscript	690902	None	None	None	Never

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Description Vincent Danen 2010-04-14 11:30:24 EDT

A buffer overflow vulnerability in Ghostscript's parser function was reported.  A specially crafted postscript file could result in the execution of arbitrary code if opened or printed (i.e. via CUPS).  Note that stack protections in the compiler render this into nothing more than a denial of service.  This has been corrected in upstream Ghostscript 8.71; at least 8.64 and 8.70 are affected by this issue.  Testing of Ghostscript 8.15 shows it does not suffer from this flaw.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Rodrigo Rubira Branco of Check Point Vulnerability Discovery Team for responsibly reporting this issue.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-04-14 11:32:23 EDT

This issue does not affect Fedora 11 or higher as they provide Ghostscript 8.71.

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or earlier due to the older versions of Ghostscript (8.15 and older).

Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2010-04-15 14:37:25 EDT

Relevant upstream bug and commit should be:
  http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690902
  http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/source/detail?r=10312

Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2010-05-12 02:35:11 EDT

Public now via:
  http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2010/cpai-10-May.html

Comment 10 Tomas Hoger 2010-05-12 02:36:28 EDT

Statement:

Not vulnerable.  This issue did not affect the versions of ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

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