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CVE-2013-5653

Public on 2017-01-10
Modified on 2017-01-10
Description

It was found that the ghostscript functions getenv and filenameforall did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially crafted postscript document could read environment variable and list directory respectively, from the target.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 ghostscript 2017-01-10 18:00 ALAS-2017-784

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N