Vulnerability CVE-2005-2471
Published: 2005-08-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Netpbm -> Netpbm 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21500
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0038/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14379
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-743.html
http://www.osvdb.org/18253
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1021
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014752
http://secunia.com/advisories/19436
http://secunia.com/advisories/18330
http://secunia.com/advisories/16184
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11645
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319757
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