bugtraq - Re: Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup

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Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 21:15:15 +1000
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: giecrilj@...gny.2a.pl
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, ne01026@...gny.2a.pl
Subject: Re: Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup

Dear Krzysztof,

>> ... it is dangerous to do
>>   cd /tmp; gs any.ps
>
> What is in the file "any.ps"?
> You are exposed ... without feeding *anything* to Ghostscript ...

Yes, precisely: that is why I called it any.ps.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia