CVE-2005-2536 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2536
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Description: 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 Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21498 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA16183 Secunia Advisory: SA16305 Secunia Advisory: SA16624 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792 BID 14378

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