Description (CNA)
pstotext before 1.8g does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious PostScript file.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16305
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16624
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16305
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16624
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378