Debian Security Advisory DSA 792-1 (pstotext)

The remote host is missing an update to pstotext announced via advisory DSA 792-1. 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. For the...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 192-1 (html2ps)

The remote host is missing an update to html2ps announced via advisory DSA 192-1. This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 284-1 (kdegraphics)

The remote host is missing an update to kdegraphics announced via advisory DSA 284-1. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 293-1 (kdelibs)

The remote host is missing an update to kdelibs announced via advisory DSA 293-1. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 612-1 (a2ps)

The remote host is missing an update to a2ps announced via advisory DSA 612-1. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 654-1 (enscript)

The remote host is missing an update to enscript announced via advisory DSA 654-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb6541.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 654-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 293-1 (kdelibs)

The remote host is missing an update to kdelibs announced via advisory DSA 293-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2931.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 293-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1021-1 (netpbm-free)

The remote host is missing an update to netpbm-free announced via advisory DSA 1021-1. Max Vozeler from the Debian Audit Project discovered that pstopnm, a converter from Postscript to the PBM, PGM and PNM formats, launches Ghostscript in an insecure manner, which might lead to the execution of...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1124)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gv (ZYPP Patch Number 2267)

A stackoverflow in the postscript viewer gv could be used to exploited to execute code, if the user could be tricked into viewing a prepared postscript file. CVE-2006-5864 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: kdegraphics-3.5.8-7.fc7

Graphics applications for the K Desktop Environment, including kamera digital camera support kcoloredit palette editor and color chooser kdvi displays TeX .dvi files kghostview displays postscript files kiconedit icon editor kooka scanner application kpdf displays PDF files kruler screen ruler an...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : evince vulnerability (USN-390-1)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the PostScript processor included in evince. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PS file, an attacker could crash evince or execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : evince-gtk vulnerability (USN-390-3)

USN-390-2 fixed vulnerabilities in evince. This update provides the corresponding update for evince-gtk. A buffer overflow was discovered in the PostScript processor included in evince. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PS file, an attacker could crash evince or execute arbitrar...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : evince vulnerability (USN-390-2)

USN-390-1 fixed a vulnerability in evince. The original fix did not fully solve the problem, allowing for a denial of service in certain situations. A buffer overflow was discovered in the PostScript processor included in evince. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PS file, an...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : fbi (fbi-1915)

The fbgs program did not activate security options in the postscript interpreter due to a typo CVE-2006-3119. fbgs also used a temporary directory with predictable name CVE-2006-1695. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : gv (gv-2266)

A stackoverflow in the postscript viewer gv could be used to exploited to execute code, if the user could be tricked into viewing a prepared postscript file. CVE-2006-5864 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fr...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : evince (evince-2362)

Specially crafted Postscript files could be used to execute arbitrary code by causing a buffer overflow in evince CVE-2006-5864. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update evince-2362. Th...

[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: kdegraphics-3.5.7-1.fc6.1

Graphics applications for the K Desktop Environment. Includes: kdvi displays TeX .dvi files kghostview displays postscript files kcoloredit palette editor and color chooser kiconedit icon editor kolourpaint a simple drawing program ksnapshot screen capture utility kview image viewer for GIF, JPEG...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: kdegraphics-3.5.7-2.fc7

Graphics applications for the K Desktop Environment, including kamera digital camera support kcoloredit palette editor and color chooser kdvi displays TeX .dvi files kghostview displays postscript files kiconedit icon editor kooka scanner application kpdf displays PDF files kruler screen ruler an...

Authentication flaw

The Scheduler Service VxSchedService.exe in Symantec Storage Foundation for Windows 5.0 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code via certain requests to the service socket that create 1 PreScript or 2 PostScript registry values under...