Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1220-1)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57653");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-5869");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 22:17:11 +0000 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
  script_version("2025-08-04T05:47:09+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-08-04 05:47:09 +0000 (Mon, 04 Aug 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.1");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_name("Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1220-1)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB3\.1");

  script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"DSA-1220-1");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2006/DSA-1220-1");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-1220");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pstotext' package(s) announced via the DSA-1220-1 advisory.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Brian May discovered that pstotext, a utility to extract plain text from Postscript and PDF files, performs insufficient quoting of file names, which allows execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-1sarge2. The build for the mipsel architecture is not yet available due to technical problems with the build host.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your pstotext package.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'pstotext' package(s) on Debian 3.1.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");

release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";
report = "";

if(release == "DEB3.1") {

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pstotext", ver:"1.9-1sarge2", rls:"DEB3.1"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
  } else if(__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
  }
  exit(0);
}

exit(0);