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RE: Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup
From: "Michael Wojcik" <Michael.Wojcik () microfocus com>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:25:43 -0700
From: paul.szabo () sydney edu au [mailto:paul.szabo () sydney edu au] Sent: Sunday, 30 May, 2010 06:50 I also see no -P- and no absolute paths for the ps files mentioned in many "gs scripts" e.g. /usr/bin/pdf2dsc or /usr/bin/ps2ascii . Also, crappy coding for "GS_EXECUTABLE=gs". Am not sure if these are "originally gs" or "Debian special".
I believe they're all part of the standard Ghostscript distribution; at any rate, they're in the Windows Ghostscript distribution I have installed here. The Windows scripts (gs*\lib\*.bat) are similarly vulnerable: no use of -P-, and letting the executable name be overridden by an environment variable. -- Michael Wojcik Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus
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