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CVE-2010-4054

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4054 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the gs_type2_interpret function of Ghostscript, affecting artifex afpl_ghostscript, ghostscript_fonts, and gpl_ghostscript. This medium-complexity vulnerability can be exploited remotely by an unauthenticated attacker sending crafted font data in a compressed stream, leading to an application crash due to an incorrect pointer dereference. While it has a CVSS score of 4.3, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:afpl_ghostscript:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:afpl_ghostscript:6.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.50CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:afpl_ghostscript:6.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:afpl_ghostscript:7.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:afpl_ghostscript:7.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0266 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: ghostscript-0:7.07-33.13.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ghostscript-0:8.70-6.el5_7.6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ghostscript-0:8.70-11.el6_2.6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-4054Low

ghostscript: glyph data access improper input validation

Jan 4, 2010

References

ghostscript.com / pipermail/gs-cvs/2010-January/010333.html
Patch
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/538191
PatchUS Government Resource