CVE-2005-2536

Published: 10 August 2005

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
pstotext Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Not vulnerable
	edgy	Not vulnerable
	feisty	Not vulnerable
	upstream	Needs triage

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2536
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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