Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.011
EPSS Ranking 77.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16305
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16624
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16305
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16624
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498