DSA-2892-1 a2ps - security update

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CVE-2009-5078

contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff aka groff before 1.21 launches the Ghostscript program without the -dSAFER option, which allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, rename, or delete arbitrary files via a crafted document...

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-2001-1353

Vulnerability (CVE-2001-1353) affects Ghostscript up to version 6.50, where the file operator can be exploited by a local user to read and write arbitrary files as the lp user, even when running with -dSAFER . The root cause is that the file operator integrity check does not prevent untrusted fil...

CVE-1999-0155

The ghostscript command with the -dSAFER option allows remote attackers to execute commands...