CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2471

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-08-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-08-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

pstopnm in netpbm does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to convert a PostScript file into a (1) PBM, (2) PGM, or (3) PNM file, which allows external user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected configurations

• netpbm netpbm 2.10.0.8

References