Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 10, 2005· Updated Jun 16, 2026

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.

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Affected products

Pstotext/Pstotext2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:pstotext:pstotext:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:pstotext:pstotext:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.9.1
- (no CPE)range: <1.8g

Patches

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References

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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