Vulnerability CVE-2006-5869
Published: 2006-11-26   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
pstotext before 1.9 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a file name.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.1/10
6.4/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Pstotext -> Pstotext 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1220
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1707
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21299
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17897
http://secunia.com/advisories/23135
http://secunia.com/advisories/20012
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356988
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