Local Privilege Escalation via Trojan Horse Library in Ghostscript

CVE-2000-1163 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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