CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2471

Published: Aug 05, 2005 | Modified: Oct 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

pstopnm in netpbm does not properly use the -dSAFER option when calling Ghostscript to convert a PostScript file into a (1) PBM, (2) PGM, or (3) PNM file, which allows external user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Netpbm Netpbm 2.10.0.8 (including) 2.10.0.8 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RedHat netpbm-0:9.24-11.30.2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat netpbm-0:10.25-2.EL4.1 *
Netpbm-free Ubuntu dapper *
Netpbm-free Ubuntu devel *
Netpbm-free Ubuntu edgy *
Netpbm-free Ubuntu feisty *

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