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 Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2017-07-10T14:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2005-2536

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

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

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


Link: CVE-2005-2536

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