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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-08-10T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:30:01.185Z

Reserved: 2005-08-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-2536

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-08-10T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-07-11T01:32:53.533

Link: CVE-2005-2536

cve-icon Redhat

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