CVE-2010-4054 (GCVE-0-2010-4054)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-10-22 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:34
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2319 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/538191 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2010-Janu… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2010-01-06 00:00
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