Re: Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup

[paul.szabo () sydney edu au]

Dear Krzysztof,

> > ... it is dangerous to do
> >   cd /tmp; gs any.ps
>
> What is in the file "any.ps"?
> You are exposed ... without feeding *anything* to Ghostscript ...

Yes, precisely: that is why I called it any.ps.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia