CVE-2005-2471 Information

Description

pstopnm in netpbm does not properly use the -dSAFER\ option when calling Ghostscript to convert a PostScript file into a (1) PBM (2) PGM or (3) PNM file which allows external user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319757 http://secunia.com/advisories/16184 http://secunia.com/advisories/18330 http://secunia.com/advisories/19436 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014752 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1021 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html http://www.osvdb.org/18253 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-743.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14379 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0038/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21500 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11645