[SECURITY] [DSA 792-1] New pstotext packages fix arbitrary command execution

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 792-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 31st, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2005-2536

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...

CVE-2005-2536

CVE-2005-2536 affects pstotext prior to fixes described in Debian DSA-792-1 and GLSA 200507-29. The vulnerability arises because pstotext did not pass Ghostscript the -dSAFER option when extracting text from PostScript/PDF files, enabling a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a mali...