CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-2536

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The vulnerability in pstotext before version 1.8g is due to improper use of the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files. This allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious PostScript file.

Risk Assessment

The organization is at risk of remote code execution by an attacker, which could lead to system compromise, data theft, or further propagation of the attack within the network.

Recommendation

Immediately update pstotext to version 1.8g or later, which correctly uses the "-dSAFER" option.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS