Vulnerability CVE-2005-2536
Published: 2005-08-10   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

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
Pstotext -> Pstotext 

 References:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21498
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792
http://secunia.com/advisories/16624
http://secunia.com/advisories/16305
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