9.3
CRITICAL
CVE-2010-1628
Ghostscript Recursive Stack Overflow Vulnerability
Description

Ghostscript 8.64, 8.70, and possibly other versions allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PostScript file containing unlimited recursive procedure invocations, which trigger memory corruption in the stack of the interpreter.

INFO

Published Date :

May 19, 2010, 10:30 p.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 10, 2018, 7:57 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

10.0

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2010-1628 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Artifex gpl_ghostscript

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2010-1628 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 10, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/511243/100/0/threaded [Exploit]
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511243/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 07, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 20, 2010

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.44 }} -0.12%

score

0.75116

percentile

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