CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1163

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-01-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-01-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

ghostscript before 5.10-16 uses an empty LD_RUN_PATH environmental variable to find libraries in the current directory, which could allow local users to execute commands as other users by placing a Trojan horse library into a directory from which another user executes ghostscript.

Affected configurations

• aladdin enterprises ghostscript 4.3 • aladdin enterprises ghostscript 5.10.10 • aladdin enterprises ghostscript 5.10.15 • aladdin enterprises ghostscript 5.10cl • aladdin enterprises ghostscript 5.50

References