CVE-2005-2536 Information

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.

Reference

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