Bug 646086 (CVE-2010-4054) - CVE-2010-4054 ghostscript: glyph data access improper input validation
Summary: CVE-2010-4054 ghostscript: glyph data access improper input validation
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-4054
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 647405 760157 760158 760159 760160 760161
Blocks: 733386 806689
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Reported: 2010-10-24 10:25 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 17:12 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-02-02 22:49:51 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0095 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: ghostscript security update 2012-02-03 03:42:16 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0096 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: ghostscript security update 2012-02-03 03:29:11 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-10-24 10:25:27 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-4054 to
the following vulnerability:

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.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4054
[2] http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2010-January/010333.html
[3] http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/538191

Upstream bug report:
[4] http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691043
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-10-24 10:33:43 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the ghostscript package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

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This issue affects the version of the ghostscript package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 12.

This issue does not affect the version of the ghostscript package, as
shipped with Fedora release of 13 (updated ghostscript package is already
present in Fedora 13 -testing repository and will shortly reach -stable
branch).
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-10-28 09:17:38 UTC 
Created ghostscript tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-12 [bug 647405]
Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2010-10-28 09:57:59 UTC 
Looks to me like Fedora 12 has not been affected since February, which is when it was updated to 8.71.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-02 22:33:10 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2012:0096 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-02 22:45:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0095 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
Comment 16 Vincent Danen 2012-02-02 22:49:51 UTC 
Statement:

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