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CVE-2010-4820 (GCVE-0-2010-4820)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-10-27 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:02
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Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2055.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2010-05-22 00:00
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