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.
References
- CSSA-2000-041 vendor-advisory
- ghostscript-env-variable(5564) vdb-entry
- MDKSA-2000:074 vendor-advisory
- 1991 vdb-entry
- CLSA-2000:343 vendor-advisory
- 20001123 ghostscript: symlink attack vendor-advisory