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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16305 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16624 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/ ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378 ↗