CVE-2005-2536

high

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792

http://secunia.com/advisories/16624

http://secunia.com/advisories/16305

http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-08-10

Updated: 2024-11-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H