Pstotext Security Vulnerabilities

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-2006-5869

pstotext before 1.9 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a file name.