CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2536

Published: Aug 10, 2005 | Modified: Jul 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

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pstotext Pstotext * 1.9.1 (including)

References