ALT-PU-2020-3110-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2005-08-10
Modified: 2025-04-03
Modified: 2025-04-03
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.
Severity: HIGH (7.5)
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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
Published: 2006-11-26
Modified: 2025-04-09
Modified: 2025-04-09
CVE-2006-5869
pstotext before 1.9 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a file name.
Severity: MEDIUM (5.1)
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
References:
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356988
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20012
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23135
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1220
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17897
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21299
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1707
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356988
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20012
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23135
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1220
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17897
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21299
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1707