CentOS 3 : ghostscript (CESA-2005:081)

Updated ghostscript packages that fix a PDF output issue and a temporary file security bug are now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Ghostscript is a program for displaying PostScript files or printing them to non-PostScript...

FreeBSD : ghostscript -- insecure temporary file creation vulnerability (27a70a01-5f6c-11da-8d54-000cf18bbe54)

Ghostscript is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is likely due to a design error that causes the application to fail to verify the existence of a file before writing to it. An attacker may leverage this issue to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1021-1] New netpbm-free packages fix arbitrary command execution

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1021-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 28th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-1021-1 netpbm-free - insecure program execution

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Ubuntu 4.10 : GhostScript utility script vulnerabilities (USN-3-1)

Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the gs-common package. The utilities 'pv.sh' and 'ps2epsi' created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Note...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : tiff vulnerability (USN-130-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered a buffer overflow in the TIFF library. A malicious image with an invalid 'bits per sample' number could be constructed which, when decoded, would have resulted in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process using the library. Since this library is used ...

Ubuntu 4.10 : tiff vulnerability (USN-46-1)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the TIFF library. A TIFF file includes a value indicating the number of 'directory entry' header fields contained in the file. If this value is -1, an invalid memory allocation was performed. A malicious image could be constructed which, when decoded, would hav...

RHEL 3 : ghostscript (RHSA-2005:081)

Updated ghostscript packages that fix a PDF output issue and a temporary file security bug are now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Ghostscript is a program for displaying PostScript files or printing them to non-PostScript...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : netpbm (MDKSA-2005:133)

Max Vozeler discovered that pstopnm, a part of the netpbm graphics utility suite, would call the GhostScript interpreter on untrusted PostScript files without using the -dSAFER option when converting a PostScript file into a PBM, PGM, or PNM file. This could result in the execution of arbitrary...

ghostscript, hpijs security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:081 Updated ghostscript packages that fix a PDF output issue and a temporary file security bug are now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Ghostscript is a program for displaying...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security update

Updated ghostscript packages that fix a PDF output issue and a temporary file security bug are now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Ghostscript is a program for displaying PostScript files or printing them to non-PostScript...

temporary file vulnerabilities in various ghostscript scripts.

The 1 pj-gs.sh, 2 ps2epsi, 3 pv.sh, and 4 sysvlp.sh scripts in the ESP Ghostscript espgs package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and other operating systems, allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

Debian DSA-792-1 : pstotext - missing input sanitising

Max Vozeler discovered that pstotext, a utility to extract text from PostScript and PDF files, did not execute ghostscript with the -dSAFER argument, which prevents potential malicious operations to happen. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package chec...

DSA-792-1 pstotext - missing input sanitising

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security flaw

pstopnm in netpbm does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to convert a PostScript file into a 1 PBM, 2 PGM, or 3 PNM file, which allows external user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands...

USN-164-1: netpbm vulnerability

Max Vozeler discovered that the the "pstopnm" conversion tool did not use the -dSAFER option when calling ghostscript. This option prohibits file operations and calling commands within PostScript code. This flaw could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code if he tricked an user or ...

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

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

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GLSA-200508-04 : Netpbm: Arbitrary code execution in pstopnm

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200508-04 Netpbm: Arbitrary code execution in pstopnm Max Vozeler reported that pstopnm calls the GhostScript interpreter on untrusted PostScript files without specifying the -dSAFER option, to convert a PostScript file into a PBM...