# CVE-2010-4054: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via crafted font data in compressed streams, affecting systems using Ghostscript.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 22 Oct 2010
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4054, GHSA-v2wp-vq4f-gx8c

## What is CVE-2010-4054?

CVE-2010-4054 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Oct 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The gs_type2_interpret function in Ghostscript allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted font data in a compressed data stream, aka bug 691043.

Weakness: CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4054?

It affects 3 products.


Products: Artifex Afpl Ghostscript, Artifex Ghostscript Fonts, Artifex Gpl Ghostscript.

## How do I fix CVE-2010-4054?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2010-4054 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4054 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2009-3743](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-3743/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2009-4897](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-4897/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2017-6196](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-6196/): Use after free in n/a (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2010-2055](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-2055/): Path traversal in n/a (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2015-3228](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-3228/): Integer overflow in n/a (medium 6.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2010-4054 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2010-4054 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Oct 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4054 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4054/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4054/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4054
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4054
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-4054

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4054/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.