Dear Christopher, > Ghostscript_8.64 on openSuSE_11.2 executes all files matching > ./Encoding/* on startup. This search is relative to the current > directory so it is easy to poison Ghostscript and cause it to execute > arbitrary PostScript code without user action or knowledge. > > Details: <URL:https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071> Interesting! So if someone creates /tmp/Encoding then it is dangerous to do cd /tmp; gs any.ps I now used: strace -omylog gs grep '"\./' mylog | sort -u and that shows that gs tries many files in currrent directory, "protection" against just ./Encoding is not enough. Cheers, Paul Szabo psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
