A memory corruption vulnerability caused by long names was discovered [1] in Ghostscript 8.64 and earlier. A specially crafted PDF file could result in the execution of arbitrary code if opened or printed (i.e. via CUPS).

This was corrected in upstream Ghostscript 8.70 [2], version 8.64 and previous are affected by this flaw (all the way back to Ghostscript 7.05).

References:

[1] http://bugs.ghostscript.com/showbug.cgi?id=690523 [2] http://svn.ghostscript.com/viewvc?view=rev&revision=9797

Ghostscript 8.71 and earlier reads initialization files from the current working directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript commands via a Trojan horse file, related to improper support for the -P- option to the gs program, as demonstrated using gsinit.ps, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4820.