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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:25:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: ghostscript and gv

----- "Michael Gilbert" <michael.s.gilbert@...il.com> wrote:

> > > In the Debian bug report Paul also mentiones that gv creates a
> > > temporary file in an insecure way:
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583316#10
> 
> should the insecure temp file get its own id since it is rather
> different than the original problem?
> 

Sigh, yes. I need to read the whole mail next time :(

So to recap:

CVE-2010-2055 ghostscript and gv unsafe CWD init file usage
CVE-2010-2056 ghostscript insecure /tmp use

-- 
    JB

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