Re: CVE assignment: ghostscript stack-based overflow

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- "Dan Rosenberg" <dan.j.rosenberg () gmail com> wrote:

> CVE request for the second issue described in this advisory, just
> published:
>
> http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/May/134
>
> quote:
>
> GhostScript (all tested versions) fails to properly handle infinitely
> recursive procedure invocations.  By providing a PostScript file with a
> sequence such as:
>
> /A{pop 0 A 0} bind def
> /product A 0
>
> the interpreter's internal stack will be overflowed with recursive calls,
> at which point execution will jump to an attacker-controlled address.
> This vulnerability can be exploited by enticing a user to open a
> maliciously crafted PostScript file, achieving arbitrary code execution.
> This issue has not yet been assigned a CVE identifier.

Use CVE-2010-1628 for this one.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB