Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 10, 2005· Updated Apr 16, 2026
CVE-2005-2536
CVE-2005-2536
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
1Patches
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References
7- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/16183/nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/16305nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/16624nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498nvd
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